The latest unemployment numbers show one in five people are out of work in Barnwell County. With so many plant closures and layoffs happening there, jobseekers are encouraged to look outside the community for work. News Channel 6’s Joy Howe has more.

It’s the third plant in the last three months to bring bad news to Barnwell County. Officials with Alliance Air Enterprises, located in Blackville, SC, announced they are beginning the process of shutting down, and taking away 350 jobs. The unemployment line continues to grow in one of the state’s highest unemployment areas. WJBF News Channel 6’s Joy Howe has more.

Spartanburg-based Milliken & Co. plans to close a textile plant in Barnwell County later this year, putting about 120 people out of work.  Milliken spokesman Richard Dillard told the Herald-Journal of Spartanburg that markets served by the 50-year-old plant in Barnwell will be shifted to other South Carolina facilities.

More than 300 jobs will be lost, when a Barnwell plant shuts down in April. Plant officials at Hanesbrands, Inc. told employees Wednesday they had two months to find a new job. WJBF News Channel 6’s Joy Howe has the story.