Daviess County’s workforce has decreased 10% in the past 25 years. In the summer of 1999, the county’s workforce — the number of people available for jobs — stood at 50,566. Last month, it was 45,334.
Unemployment rates rose in all 120 counties between December 2023 and December 2024, according to the Kentucky Center for Statistics (KYSTATS), an agency within the Kentucky Education and Labor ...