NoCo unemployment dropped in April

DENVER – Unemployment in Northern Colorado dropped in April from the previous month, as Greeley’s rate dropped from 9.9 percent in March to 9 percent in April and Fort Collins-Loveland dropped from 7.1 percent to 6.4 percent.

Greeley’s unemployment rate for April 2009 was 8.8 percent, while the rate for Fort Collins-Loveland one year ago was 6.8 percent.

For the state, unemployment inched up from 7.9 percent in March to 8 percent in April, according to figures released Friday by the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. In April 2009 the state’s unemployment rate was 8.1 percent.

Donald Mares, CDLE director, said the…