REGIONAL AND STATE EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT
AUGUST 2009
Regional and state unemployment rates were generally little changed in
August. 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.
Read the entire release at: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm
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