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Workers Lose Jobs, Labor Force Shrinks February 3, 2021
Thousands of workers continued to exit the southwestern Pennsylvania labor force, and the local unemployment rate ticked upward as the pandemic year of 2020 drew to a close.
The seven-county Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose from 6.7 percent in November to 6.8 percent in December 2020, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor Center for Workforce Information & Analysis program data.
During the holiday season, some counties in the region fared better than others. Butler County posted the lowest unemployment rate at 5.9 percent. Fayette County, where 8.6 percent of workers were unemployed, had the highest rate in the Pittsburgh MSA. In Allegheny County, which includes the City of Pittsburgh, 6.7 percent of workers were unemployed in December.