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Show Unemployment rate levels off The forecasted Summit County unemployment rate for August, 1983 is 9.5 percent. According to David Turner, manager of the Heber Job Service, after the revisions are made to that forecast to arrive at the actual rate for August, it will be near the 8.8 percent figure for July of this year. That leveling off of the unemployment rate did not surprise Turner. "In our area there will of course be some seasonal factors, but overall I think we are seeing a turnaround," he said. He added that layoffs in the area have virtually ceased, and that many long-term unemployed are going back to work. The state's unemployment rate is still lower, 7.2 percent, than the Summit County rate, but the Summit rate has dropped from last year. In August 1982, 11.3 percent of the area work force was out of work. p Two areas of the employment employ-ment picture are brighter than most, said Turner. "Statewide, construction and manufacturing were the hardest hit by the recession. Now they are beginning to comeback." Turner also believes the unemployment figure will keep dropping. "The diversified diversi-fied economy in Utah makes for a faster recovery rate because all of our eggs are not in one basket," he explained. |