The unemployment rate in Delaware inched up slightly to 4.4 percent in January – the first change since July when it was 4.3 percent.
That’s according to the Labor Department.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that the increase appears to be the result of people returning to the workforce faster than its expansion.
The labor force had grown by 600 people while the number employed rose by 400.
The paper reports that the figures are based on the latest monthly surveys of around 13-hundred businesses and 850 households in the First State.
