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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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REGIONAL AND STATE EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT -- NOVEMBER 2011 [20 December 2011]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/laus.pdf

[full-text, 20 pages]

and

Supplemental Files Table of Contents

http://www.bls.gov/web/laus.supp.toc.htm

Regional and state unemployment rates were generally lower in November. Forty-three

states and the District of Columbia recorded unemployment rate decreases, three

states posted rate increases, and four states had no rate change, the U.S. Bureau

of Labor Statistics reported today. Forty-five states registered unemployment rate

decreases from a year earlier, while five states and the District of Columbia

experienced increases. The national jobless rate fell by 0.4 percentage point

between October and November to 8.6 percent, down from 9.8 percent in November 2010.

In November, nonfarm payroll employment increased in 29 states and the District of

Columbia, decreased in 19 states, and was unchanged in 2 states. The largest

over-the-month increases in employment occurred in New York (+29,500) and Texas

(+20,800). The largest over-the-month decrease in employment occurred in Wisconsin

(-14,600), followed by Minnesota (-13,700) and Colorado (-4,500). South Carolina

experienced the largest over-the-month percentage increase in employment (+0.9

percent), followed by Arkansas and Wyoming (+0.6 percent each). Alaska experienced

the largest over-the-month percentage decline in employment (-0.8 percent), followed

by Delaware (-0.7 percent) and Montana (-0.6 percent). Over the year, nonfarm

employment increased in 45 states and the District of Columbia and decreased in

5 states. The largest over-the-year percentage increase occurred in North Dakota

(+4.5 percent), followed by Wyoming (+3.0 percent) and Oklahoma (+2.8 percent).

The largest over-the-year percentage decreases in employment occurred in Delaware

(-0.8 percent) and Georgia (-0.5 percent).

AND MUCH MORE...including TABLES....

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Institute for Workplace Studies 
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