(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – Yuba-Sutter’s unemployment rate for September showed encouraging improvement from August, down over half-a-percent, from 7.7% to 6.6.%. However, that is still up over half-a-percent from September of last year. The California Employment Development Department reports there were 59,200 Yuba-Sutter residents working, of the 80,900 in the job market.

The state unemployment rate in September was 5.3% while the national rate was 3.9%.