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  "name": "Hennepin County",
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  "value": 4.6,
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  "label": "Unemployment rate, August 2026",
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   "+0.6 points from August 2025 (4.0%)",
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  "The rate counts people looking for work; it misses people who stopped looking and people working fewer hours than they want.",
  "County rates come from a model fed by surveys and claims, so small monthly moves are mostly noise."
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 "method": "The latest month is compared with the same month a year before: a rise of 0.3 points or more is 'higher', a fall of 0.3 or more 'lower'.",
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  {
   "name": "BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUCN270530000000003, LAUST270000000000003, LNU04000000)",
   "url": "https://www.bls.gov/lau/",
   "license": "U.S. public domain"
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  "value": 4.6,
  "year_ago": 4
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