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Local, state unemployment rates drop

Tippecanoe County’s unemployment rate for April is almost one-percent better than the previous month.

It dropped from 7.2-percent in March to 6.4 last month.

The city of Lafayette improved to 7.3-percent in April.

West Lafayette’s rate fell six-tenths to 4.2.

That falls in line with what’s happening throughout the state.

Indiana’s unemployment rate is the lowest it’s been in three years at 7.9-percent.