D.C. Joblessness Rises in February
åÇ'ÐÊ The unemployment rate in Washington rose in February after declining -in each of the previous four months, the D.C. Department of Labor reported yesterday.</br></br>(C According to the department, 303,-råÇ00 persons had jobs in February out *if a labor force of 328,900. In January,</br></br>The unemployment rate thus rose vjto 7.6 percent from 7.5 percent in Jan-Juary, The department noted that the Û¢^February figure is well below the 9.4 ^percent unemployment rate for the (.District for February 1978.</br></br>an unemployment rate of 5 percent for the entire metropolitan area. The comparable figure for February 1978 was 5.3 percent, the Labor Department said.</br></br>The latest figures showed an increase in the labor force of 34,300 over the past year, most of it in the suburbs.