The department said almost 120,000 Kansans were actively seeking jobs last month, compared with about 74,000 in July 2008.The rate in Jefferson County dropped to 7.8 percent in July from 8.3 percent in June, the lowest the rate has been since November. The county’s unemployment rate is still much higher than at this time last year, when it hovered at 6 percent for most of the summer.Statewide, New York’s unemployment rate fell slightly in July, dropping to 8.6 percent from 8.7 in June. That’s the state’s first month-to-month decrease in a year.The Hudson Valley rate rose to 7.6 percent from 5.2 percent a year ago, which Johny Nelson, regional labor analyst for the department, said was the largest July over-the-year increase on record since 1991.