Unemployment Higher in Brainerd Area

The October unemployment rate around the Brainerd Lakes Area was up from September.

The Jobless rate in Crow Wing County jumped from 7.4 to 8 percent, or 2,652 drawing unemployment compensation.

Cass County saw it's unemployment rate jump two tenths percent to 8.2 percent. Aitkin County was also up by two tenths to 8.1 percent. Morrison county held steady at 9 percent. Mille Lacs County had the highest level of joblessness at 10.8 percent last month.

The national unemployment rate is at 10 percent.