South Carolina's unemployment rate has gone up for the first time in four months. The Department of Employment and Workforce said Friday that the state's jobless rate was 8.4 percent in December. That's up slightly from 8.3 percent in November..
Here are the unemployment numbers in the Upstate:
Greenville 6.8
Pickens 7.5
Anderson 8.4
Spartanburg 8.4
Laurens 8.9
Oconee 9.0
Greenwood 10.1
Abbeville 10.7
Cherokee 11.1