...according to a state report. The rate for June was 7.4 percent compared to 7.1 percent in May, the Labor and Workforce Development Department said. In Juneau, the June rate was 5.8 percent, compared to 5.2 percent in May and 5.4 percent...

...filling out applications to rehearsing for interviews. It conducts training sessions as well. As a Labor and Workforce Development Department employee since 1992, Burke has worked in programs that helped hundreds in Southeast Alaska find employment...

...similar businesses. Some might quibble over the lumping of both local retail and tourism traffic in the Labor and Workforce Development Department's figures. "We are not set up to monitor who the customer is. We just count who is working in what...