The Mid-Hudson News Network reports in The Daily Freeman that Columbia County led New York with the lowest percentage of joblessness, at 3.6 percent, in August. Greene County had a 4.9 percent jobless rate last month, 37th in the state. For the state, the August unemployment rate was 4.5 percent, the same from the month before, and up from 4.3 percent in August 2016. Read the full story in The Daily Freeman.