Unemployment holds at 4.7% as Kentucky payrolls slip in September - The Lane Report

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky’s unemployment rate held steady at 4.7% in September as more residents entered the labor force and found work, while a separate survey showed employers trimmed payrolls by 800 jobs. The preliminary, seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was unchanged from August and up 0.2 percentage points from September 2025, according to the Kentucky Center for Statistics, an agency within the Kentucky Education and Labor Cabinet. The national unemployment rate was 4.2% in September, up from 4.1% in August but below the 4.4% recorded a year earlier. Kentucky’s civilian labor force grew by 6,948 people in September to 2,116,455.