Employment rates continue to struggle all over the country. The approximately 7.2 million people in the U.S. unemployed during the last week of August pushed the nationwide average up 3.5% week-over-week heading into the Labor Day weekend.

That added to the trend of a small overall increase in unemployment nationwide, over the past year, according to WalletHub. So, the personal finance company dug deeper and took a look at weekly claims on the state level. West Virginia was among those where unemployment claims were higher than they’d been in the previous week.

Change in unemployment claims week-over-week in West Virginia was 3.07%, but the change in unemployment claims versus the same week last year was -8.71%; change in unemployment claims year-to-date was a disturbing 7.07%, and unemp

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