DeKALB – The county’s unemployment rate slipped in November, but analysts worry the looming “fiscal cliff” could hurt that economic progress.

The seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate in DeKalb County dropped from 7.4 percent in October to 7.3 percent in November, according to data released Thursday by the Illinois Department of Employment Security. In November 2011, the unemployment rate was 8.5 percent.

For the past 12 months, the county’s monthly unemployment rate has been better than the same month for the previous year.