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Show Unemployment rate for County drops below state average The unemployment rate for Summit County in April dropped below the state rate for the first time in a year, according to David Turner, manager of the Heber Job Service office. The rate in Summit dropped from March's 6.1 percent to 5.2 percent in April. The state average for April stood at 5.5 percent. The April drop is the eighth in a row for Summit County. Compared to the 1983 rates, 1984 has continued to show a healthy economic trend, Turner said. The April 1983 rate was 8.7 percent, a full 3.5 points above 1984. It was last April, Turner said, when the Summit County rate last dropped below the Utah state unemployment unem-ployment rate. The national rate for April, 1984 was 7.8 percent; that figure has stayed the same for three months running. Turner had previously said the Summit rate for April could show a slight increase in-crease with the closings of ParkWest and Deer Valley, but he was proved wrong. Still, he says this is a "between "be-tween period" for jobs, and the May rate will likely stay about the same as April. But in the summer, he says, rates should keep heading down. |