Fort Wayne Unemployment Up in January
Unemployment in Fort Wayne went up between December and January. The unemployment rate rose to 4.4% in January from 3.7% in December, with about 9,300 people in the summit city counted in January as “unemployed” by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, up more than 1,000 from December. Fort Wayne’s unemployment rate is slightly higher than the state’s rate of 4%, which was announced last week.