In August, Latimer Couty posted Oklahoma's highest county unemployment rate of 5.4 percent. Tillman County reported the second-highest rate for the month, followed by McIntosh and Pittsburg Counties. Cimarron County reported the lowest county unemployment rate of 1.2 percent in August. Unemployment rates in August were lower than a year earlier in 76 of Oklahoma's 77 counties and higher in one county.
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