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Unemployment Rate (Seasonally Adjusted), 2008-2009

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 October 2008October 2009
United States6.6%10.2%
Alabama5.7%10.9%
Alaska6.8%8.9%
Arizona6.2%9.3%
Arkansas5.4%7.6%
California8.0%12.5%
Colorado5.3%6.9%
Connecticut6.1%8.8%
Delaware5.5%8.7%
District of Columbia7.7%11.9%
Florida6.9%11.2%
Georgia6.9%10.2%
Hawaii4.6%7.2%
Idaho5.6%9.0%
Illinois6.8%11.0%
Indiana6.4%9.8%
Iowa4.3%6.7%
Kansas4.7%6.8%
Kentucky6.9%11.2%
Louisiana5.5%7.4%
Maine5.7%8.2%
Maryland4.8%7.3%
Massachusetts5.8%8.9%
Michigan9.1%15.1%
Minnesota5.6%7.6%
Mississippi7.2%9.8%
Missouri6.5%9.3%
Montana4.8%6.4%
Nebraska3.6%4.9%
Nevada7.7%13.0%
New Hampshire4.0%6.8%
New Jersey6.0%9.7%
New Mexico4.5%7.9%
New York5.9%9.0%
North Carolina7.0%11.0%
North Dakota3.2%4.2%
Ohio6.9%10.5%
Oklahoma4.2%7.1%
Oregon7.2%11.3%
Pennsylvania5.8%8.8%
Rhode Island8.8%12.9%
South Carolina7.8%12.1%
South Dakota3.2%5.0%
Tennessee6.9%10.5%
Texas5.3%8.3%
Utah3.5%6.5%
Vermont4.9%6.5%
Virginia4.3%6.6%
Washington5.9%9.3%
West Virginia4.3%8.5%
Wisconsin4.9%8.4%
Wyoming3.2%7.4%
GuamNANA
Puerto Rico12.3%15.6%
Virgin IslandsNANA
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Figures in thousands.

The unemployment rate measures unemployment within the civilian non-institutional population aged 16 years and older. October 2009 state figures are preliminary.

Data for Puerto Rico are derived from a monthly household survey similar to the Current Population Survey.

Sources: 

State and territory figures from the Table 3, Regional and State Employment and Unemployment: October 2008, and Unemployment rates by State, seasonally adjusted: October 2008 and 2009, Bureau of Labor Statistics, available at http://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.t03.htm.

U.S. figures from Bureau of Labor Statistics, available at http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost?bls.




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