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REGIONAL AND STATE EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT -- FEBRUARY 2013 [29 March 2013]

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 little changed in February.

Twenty-two states had unemployment rate decreases, 12 states had

increases, and 16 states and the District of Columbia had no change,

the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Thirty-seven

states and the District of Columbia had unemployment rate decreases

from a year earlier, 10 states had increases, and 3 states had no

change. The national jobless rate, 7.7 percent, edged down from

January and was 0.6 percentage point lower than in February 2012.

 

In February 2013, nonfarm payroll employment increased in 42 states

and decreased in 8 states and the District of Columbia. The largest

over-the-month increases in employment occurred in Texas (+80,600)

and California (+41,200). The largest over-the-month decrease in

employment occurred in Connecticut (-5,700), followed by Nevada

(-5,500). Utah had the largest over-the-month percentage increase

in employment (+1.4 percent), followed by Idaho (+0.8 percent) and

Texas (+0.7 percent). Rhode Island (-0.6 percent) and Nevada (-0.5

percent) had the largest over-the-month percentage declines in

employment. Over the year, nonfarm employment increased in 49 states

and the District of Columbia and decreased in 1 state. The largest

over-the-year percentage increases occurred in North Dakota (+5.0

percent) and Utah (+4.1 percent). The only over-the-year percentage

decrease in employment occurred in Wyoming (-0.3 percent).

 

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