The Daily Freeman is reporting unemployment rates in New York were lower in April 2015 than a year earlier, the state Department of Labor reported Wed., May 27. Columbia County had the second-lowest unemployment rate in the state last month at 4.1 percent, down from 4.5 percent in April 2014. The only county with a lower jobless rate in April was Tompkins (the Ithaca area). In Greene County the unemployment rate reported was 6.1 percent, down from 6.8 percent in 2014. The statewide jobless rate last month was 5.5 percent. Read the full story in the Daily Freeman.