Comment on Workforce saw gains last month in Orange, Sullivan and Ulster

Unemployment rates dipped in Orange, Sullivan and Ulster counties in December compared to a year earlier.Figures released Tuesday by the state Department of Labor showed an unemployment rate of 5 percent in Orange, down from 5.8 percent in December 2013. Ulster had a 5.4 percent rate, compared to 6.5 percent, and Sullivan saw its jobless rate drop to 6.7 percent from 7.9 percent.Sullivan's unemployment rate was the highest in the seven-county Hudson Valley region, said Johny [...]