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• Jobless rates up in 76 counties from May 2004 to May 2005
  Thursday, June 30, 2005
  This is the monthly Kentucky county unemployment rates for May 2005.
• Kentucky’s jobless rate up slightly in May
  Thursday, June 23, 2005
  The unemployment rate for Kentucky went up slightly in May to 5.7 percent from 5.6 percent in April.
• Vocational rehabilitation center graduates 112 students from 44 counties
  Tuesday, June 21, 2005
• Secondary students excel at state skills, leadership competition
  Friday, April 15, 2005
• Appointments made to Kentucky Workforce Investment Board
  Thursday, February 03, 2005
• Jobless rates down in 104 counties from December 2003 to December 2004
  Monday, January 31, 2005
• Kentucky’s jobless rate remains at 4.5 percent in December
  Wednesday, January 26, 2005
• Vocational Rehabilitation honors Kentucky State Police
  Tuesday, January 18, 2005
• Kentucky’s jobless rate falls to 4.5 percent in November
  Wednesday, December 15, 2004
• Office for the Blind helps Kentuckian become artist, teacher
  Wednesday, December 15, 2004
• Kentucky’s jobless rate unchanged in October
  Tuesday, November 23, 2004
• Louisville-based center for the blind celebrates milestone
  Monday, November 08, 2004
• Hire Vets First campaign benefits employers and vets
  Monday, November 08, 2004
• Kentucky employment workers lend a hand in hurricane damaged Alabama
  Wednesday, November 03, 2004
• Assistive technology law will help Kentuckians with disabilities
  Thursday, October 28, 2004
• Kentucky’s jobless rate drops in September
  Tuesday, October 26, 2004
  Kentucky's unemployment rate dropped to 4.6 percent in September.
• State, TV partnership connects more than 3,000 employers and job seekers
  Wednesday, October 20, 2004
  OET and WAVE 3 TV are celebrating the one-year anniversary of an employment partnership called Job Link Monday.
• Jobless rates down in 92 counties from August 2003 to August 2004
  Wednesday, September 22, 2004
  Unemployment rates fell in 92 Kentucky counties between August 2003 and August 2004, rose in 27 and remained the same in Wolfe County.
• Kentucky’s jobless rate drops in August
  Monday, September 20, 2004
  Kentucky's August 2004 unemployment rate is well under the August 2003 rate.
• Bids being sought on electronic information service
  Friday, September 17, 2004
  RFPs are being sought for an accessible electronic information system.
• Carter named to post in Department For Workforce Investment
  Monday, September 13, 2004
  Lewis D. Carter Jr. has been named deputy executive director of the the Office of Career and Technical Education.
• Unemployment rates down in 102 counties from July 2003 to July 2004
  Tuesday, August 31, 2004
    Unemployment rates fell in 102 Kentucky counties between July 2003 and July 2004, rose in 16 and remained the same in Jessamine and Magoffin counties, according to the Kentucky Office of Employment and Training in the Education Cabinet.
• Kentucky's Jobless Rate Falls in July
  Tuesday, August 24, 2004
    Kentucky’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 5.3 percent in July from 5.5 percent in June, according to the Office of Employment and Training, an agency of the Education Cabinet.
• Visits to state workforce Web site shoot up in 2004 
  Wednesday, August 11, 2004
    A Web site that tells Kentuckians what will be the fastest growing occupations in the future, the economic pulse of a county and other workforce information has seen a 65 percent jump in the average number of people using it monthly since it began in March 2003.
• State service helps Kentuckian retain job after vision loss
  Tuesday, August 10, 2004
    When Walter Tyler began to lose his vision in December 2002, he had no idea that he would be on medical disability by spring. He also didn’t know that the Kentucky Office for the Blind (OFB) would have services that could get him back on the job and off disability in just nine days.
• Unemployment rates down in 92 counties from May 2003 to May 2004
  Monday, June 28, 2004
    Unemployment rates fell in 92 Kentucky counties between May 2003 and May 2004, rose in 27 and remained the same in Anderson County, according to the Kentucky Department for Employment Services in the Education Cabinet.
• Kentucky's unemployment rate remains at 5.4 percent in May
  Monday, June 21, 2004
    Kentucky’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained at 5.4 percent from April 2004 to May 2004, according to the Department for Employment Services, an agency of the Education Cabinet. The state’s seasonally adjusted jobless rate for May 2003 was 6.2 percent.