{"id":221796,"date":"2026-05-06T11:04:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/221796\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T11:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:04:20","slug":"putnam-and-rockland-counties-have-the-lowest-rates-of-unemployment-in-new-york-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/221796\/","title":{"rendered":"Putnam and Rockland counties have the lowest rates of unemployment in New York State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY \u2013 The state Labor Department released New York\u2019s March unemployment statistics on Tuesday and Putnam tied with Rockland County reporting 3.3 percent rates of unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Hudson Valley counties scored well when it comes to low unemployment rates.<\/p>\n<p>Dutchess and Westchester recorded rates of 3.6 percent followed by Orange and Ulster counties experiencing rates of unemployment at 4.0 percent while Sullivan County had a rate of joblessness at 4.3 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The March 2026 unemployment rate for the entire Hudson Valley was 3.7 percent down from 4.2 percent in February and up from 3.4 percent in March of last year.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY \u2013 The state Labor Department released New York\u2019s March unemployment statistics on Tuesday and Putnam tied with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50,87337],"class_list":["post-221796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-unemployment-rates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}