PITTSBURG, Kan. — Over a year after COVID-19 wreaked havoc on the economy and as employers still struggle to fill jobs, the Pittsburg Area Micropolitan Economic report for Quarter 2 of 2021 shows that Pittsburg is keeping pace with many of the nation's unemployment trends. According to the Kansas Department of Labor, as of June, Crawford County’s unemployment rate was at 4.4 percent, higher than the statewide rate of 3.7 percent but still below the national unemployment rate of 5.9 percent. This is in line with what many city officials have been saying for some time, which is that Pittsburg “weathered the storm of Covid.” “The pandemic brought a lot of uncertainty,” said City of Pittsburg Finance Director Larissa Bowman at a City Commission meeting in June, “but the city feels like we’ve weathered that storm and we continue to see growth in our community.” However, Pittsburg, like the rest of the country, is still struggling to find workers to fill needed jobs.