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Tweet[IWS] BLS: METROPOLITAN AREA EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT -- JANUARY 2014 [21 March 2014]
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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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METROPOLITAN AREA EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT -- JANUARY 2014 [21 March 2014]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/metro.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/metro.pdf
[full-text, 24 pages]
and
Supplemental Files Table of Contents
http://www.bls.gov/web/metro.supp.toc.htm
Unemployment rates were lower in January than a year earlier in 367 of the 372
metropolitan areas, higher in 3 areas, and unchanged in 2 areas, the U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Thirty areas had jobless rates of
at least 10.0 percent and 41 areas had rates of less than 5.0 percent. Three
hundred sixteen metropolitan areas had over-the-year increases in nonfarm
payroll employment, 48 had decreases, and 8 had no change. The national
unemployment rate in January was 7.0 percent, not seasonally adjusted, down
from 8.5 percent a year earlier.
Metropolitan Area Unemployment (Not Seasonally Adjusted)
Yuma, Ariz., and El Centro, Calif., had the highest unemployment rates in
January, 26.1 percent and 22.0 percent, respectively. Midland, Texas, had
the lowest rate, 2.9 percent. A total of 210 areas had January unemployment
rates below the U.S. figure of 7.0 percent, 157 areas had rates above it, and
5 areas had rates equal to that of the nation. (See table 1.)
Ocean City, N.J., had the largest over-the-year unemployment rate decrease in
January (-3.7 percentage points). Ninety-one other areas had rate declines of at
least 2.0 percentage points, and an additional 183 areas had declines between
1.0 and 1.9 points. Yuma, Ariz., had the largest over-the-year jobless rate
increase (+1.3 percentage points). No other area had an unemployment rate
increase greater than 0.6 percentage point.
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| In accordance with annual practices, historical data have been revised in |
| tables 1 through 4 of this news release. For detailed information on the |
| revisions, see the box notes at the end of the news release. |
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Of the 49 metropolitan areas with a Census 2000 population of 1 million or
more, Providence-Fall River-Warwick, R.I.-Mass., had the highest unemployment
rate in January, 10.3 percent. Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, Texas, had the
lowest rate among the large areas, 4.7 percent. Forty-eight of the large areas
had over-the-year unemployment rate decreases and one had an increase. The
largest rate decline occurred in Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, N.C.-S.C.
(-2.6 percentage points). Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, Ohio, had the only jobless
rate increase over the year (+0.2 percentage point).
AND MUCH MORE...including TABLES....
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