Report has unemployment mostly unchanged form the previous month.
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Earlier this week the Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary on national data collected March
2016. Each month this government agency reports on each state's
unemployment rate and then compiles a national, regional and state
profile of unemployment. March unemployment was mostly unchanged
compared to the prior month. According to the report during the month of
March national unemployment was 5% which is .5 percentage points lower
than in March 2015.
Nationally the states reporting the highest unemployment was
Alaska at 6.6% followed by Illinois and West Virgina at 6.5% each.
South Dakota was the state with the lowest unemployment rate in the
nation at 2.5% followed by New Hampshire at 2.6%.
When compared to the national unemployment rate there are 20
states below the 5% national unemployment rate, 10 states above the
national unemployment rate and 20 states were statistically close to the
national unemployment rate. Regionally, there were little statistical
differences from the current unemployment rate across the United States.
The top states increasing employment in March were Maryland
adding 19,300 jobs during the month followed by Ohio adding 18,300 jobs.
The state reporting the most over the month decrease in employment
during March were Texas -12,000 and Indiana with a -9,000 decrease in
employment.
To view the full BLS report go to Regional and State Employment and Unemployment – March 2016.
The next BLS report on Regional and State Employment and Unemployment
Summary will be released on May 20, 2016 and that report will be
covering employment data collected for April 2016.
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