Todd Shimkus, President of the Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce says unemployment rates haven’t been this high in a very long time. WRGB reports in 2001, Shimkus says the unemployment rate sat at 2.2%. Currently, the unemployment rate sits around 3.3% which means about 3,000 people are without jobs right now in the county. Shimkus says the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the labor market, and the challenge has been finding enough people to fill the open job listings.