Thursday, March 31, 2005
Tweet[IWS] BLS: REGIONAL AND STATE EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT: FEBRUARY 2005 [31 March 2005]
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REGIONAL AND STATE EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT: FEBRUARY 2005 [31 March 2005]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/laus.pdf
[full-text, 17 pages]
and
Supplemental Files Table of Contents
http://www.bls.gov/web/laus.supp.toc.htm
Regional and state unemployment rates were generally little changed in
February. All four regions and 43 states and the District of Columbia
recorded unemployment rate shifts of 0.3 percentage point or less from
January, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor
reported today. Over the year, jobless rates were down in 35 states, up
in 13 states and the District of Columbia, and unchanged in 2 states. In
February, the national unemployment rate edged up to 5.4 percent. Nonfarm
payroll employment increased in 41 states over the month.
Regional Unemployment (Seasonally Adjusted)
The Northeast registered the lowest unemployment rate in February, 4.9
percent, while the Midwest had the highest rate, 5.8 percent. Jobless
rates in all four regions were about unchanged over the month. The West
and Northeast recorded over-the-year unemployment rate declines of -0.8
and -0.7 percentage point, respectively. The jobless rates in the South
and Midwest were little different from those of February 2004. (See
table 1.)
Among the nine geographic divisions, the lowest unemployment rates in
February were reported in the Mountain and New England divisions, 4.6 per-
cent each; South Atlantic, 4.8 percent; West North Central, 4.9 percent;
and Middle Atlantic, 5.0 percent. The East North Central division had the
highest unemployment rate, 6.2 percent, after posting an increase of 0.3
percentage point from January. Rates in the remaining eight divisions were
about unchanged over the month. The largest over-the-year unemployment
rate declines were reported in the Middle Atlantic and Pacific divisions
(-0.8 percentage point each) and the Mountain division (-0.7 point). The
New England and West South Central divisions registered smaller declines
(-0.5 and -0.3 percentage point, respectively).
AND MUCH MORE...including TABLES....
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