Kentucky’s seasonally adjusted preliminary February 2019 unemployment rate was 4.1 percent, according to the Kentucky Center for Statistics. The unemployment rate for February 2019 was down from the 4.2 percent reported for January 2019. The preliminary February 2019 jobless rate was down 0.2 percentage points from the 4.3 percent recorded for the state in February 2018. The U.S. seasonally adjusted jobless rate for February 2019 was 3.8 percent, down 0.2 percentage points from its January 2019 level, according to the US Department of Labor.