For release 10:00 a.m. (EDT) Friday, October 19, 2012 USDL-12-2073
REGIONAL AND STATE EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT -- SEPTEMBER 2012
Regional and state unemployment rates were generally lower in September.
Forty-one states and the District of Columbia recorded unemployment rate
decreases, six states posted rate increases, and three states had no change,
the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Forty-four states and
the District of Columbia registered unemployment rate decreases from a year
earlier, while six states experienced increases. The national jobless rate
decreased to 7.8 percent from August and was 1.2 percentage points lower
than in September 2011.
But I'd like to see data showing the split between full-time and part-time work.
