The rise in unemployment in the state has nearly halted its steady march upward during the January.  The Research & Planning section of the Wyoming Department of Employment reported today that the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased from 7.5% in December to 7.6% in January which they add is not a statistically significant change. At the same time, Wyoming’s unemployment rate remains significantly lower than the U.S. rate, 9.7%. While Teton County had moved in one of the three most impacted counties for the past few months, the jobless rate here has begun dropping and is now at 8.1% of the workforce idled.  Sublette County is considered the second best in the state with a 5.8% jobless rate.