![County Unemployment Rates, November 2016(Not Seasonally Adjusted)](/images/resized/images/news/2016/90_dec23/8_100_100.jpg)
New Mexico’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.7 percent in November 2016, unchanged from 6.7 percent in October, but up from 6.6 percent last year, according to statistics released this week by the New Mexico Department of Work Force Solutions.
In McKinley County, the unemployment rate for November was 8.6 percent and in neighboring Cibola County the November 2016 unemployment rate was 8.0 percent. McKinley’s unemployment rate in October 2016 was 8.9 percent and the Cibola jobless rate was 8.3 percent in October. Both county percentages represent seasonal drops, officials said.
“Definitely seasonal,” Tracy Shaleen, an economist with Work force, said. “That’s...