One of the newly employed credits retraining she received at CPCC

CHARLOTTE, N.C. Numbers released Friday show that the unemployment rate in Mecklenburg County dropped from 11 percent in August to 10.3 percent in September."It's encouraging and I noticed most of the people I went to school with most of them have jobs now," said Sherry Cogdill. Cogdill went to Central Piedmont Community College to re-train herself after losing her banking job with Wachovia. She now works in a completely different field for Lowe's.  She said recent unemployment numbers are encouraging.