The BLS released state and regional unemployment numbers today. The full report is here.
Twenty-four states recorded over-the-month unemployment rate increases,17 states and the District of Columbia registered rate decreases, and 9 states had no rate change.
What is strange is employment also increased in 33 states. So it's possible people are starting to look for work again and thus being counted.
The January State and Regional Unemployment statistics were released today:
Thirty states and the District of Columbia recorded over-the-month unemployment rate increases, 9 states registered rate decreases, and 11 states had no rate change
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Here is the monthly percent change map. Remember, this data is from January 2010, it's now March.
Yippie! Horray! Unemployment decreased in 36 States! Oops, but wait! Guess what. That isn't because we had an increase in jobs.....it's looking like we have people being dumped off the rolls and no longer counted. Isn't is so lovely how our government reports unemployment? You're broke, desperate, now living in a box and you're no longer even counted in the tally.
Thirty-six states and the District of Columbia recorded over-the-month unemployment rate decreases, 8 states registered rate increases, and 6 states had no rate change.
Onto actual job creation:
Nonfarm payroll employment increased in 19 states and decreased in 31 states and the District of Columbia.
Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia reported over-the-month unemployment rate increases, 16 states registered rate decreases, and 7 states had no rate change, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the year, jobless rates increased in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The national unemployment rate rose to 9.7 percent in August, up 0.3 percentage point from July and 3.5 points from August 2008.
The overall national unemployment rate is 9.7%. Only 8 states gained jobs, 42 states continue to lose jobs.
Src: BLS, Unemployment Rates, August 2009, click on the map to enlarge
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