The August state employment statistics shows the unemployment situation for states and regions is little changed from July. From July 18 states lost jobs while 32 states gained them. The national unemployment rate was 5.1% and 29 states showed an unemployment decrease while in 10 states the unemployment rate went up.
The March state employment statistics shows the unemployment situation might be forming more dark clouds over workers. From February a whopping 31 states cut jobs. The national unemployment rate was 5.5% yet, only 23 states showed any unemployment decrease.
The October state employment statistics shows the unemployment rate has evened out and become more similar across states. The national unemployment rate was 5.8% and 22 states show similar unemployment rates, 12 plus the D.C. area were above the national average and 16 were below.
The October state employment statistics show yet again little change when breaking down unemployment and employment by states. In spite of the national unemployment rate decline, 11 states plus D.C. showed their unemployment rates increased.
The August state employment statistics show once again when breaking down unemployment and employment by states, there is little change. In spite of the national unemployment rate decline, 18 states plus D.C. showed their unemployment rate increased.
The July state employment statistics show an odd data duck. In spite of the national unemployment rate decline, 28 states plus D.C. showed their unemployment rate increased. Only eight states showed unemployment rate declines and 14 of the states had no change at all.
The BLS employment report shows a 7.8% unemployment rate for December. November was revised up from a 7.7% to 7.8% unemployment rate, but due to a change in the BLS annual seasonal adjustment revisions. This article overviews the statistics from the Current Population Survey of the employment report and the words to describe December are little change.
The BLS employment report shows the unemployment rate ticked down by 0.2 percentage points to 7.7%. The reason for the unemployment rate decrease is less people participated in the labor force in November. Superstorm Sandy had little effect on the monthly employment figures.
The BLS employment report shows the unemployment rate ticked up by 0.1 percentage points to 7.9%. The reason for this up-tick is more people participated in the labor force in October. We love economic eye candy at The Economic Populist and this overview graphs many of the statistics from the Current Population Survey of the employment report.
The BLS unemployment report shows total nonfarm payroll jobs gained were 114,000 for September 2012 and the unemployment rate dropped to an artificial 7.8%. Some better news was August's payrolls were revised up by 40,000 jobs to 181,000 and July was also revised up by 46,000 jobs to show a gain of 142,000 in nonfarm payrolls. The below graph shows the monthly change in nonfarm payrolls employment.
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