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Unemployment Rate (Seasonally Adjusted), 2009-2010

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 July 2009July 2010
United States9.4%9.5%
Alabama10.5%9.7%
Alaska8.1%7.7%
Arizona9.4%9.6%
Arkansas7.4%7.4%
California11.8%12.3%
Colorado8.1%8.0%
Connecticut8.5%8.9%
Delaware8.2%8.4%
District of Columbia10.4%9.8%
Florida10.8%11.5%
Georgia9.9%9.9%
Hawaii7.0%6.3%
Idaho8.2%8.8%
Illinois10.5%10.3%
Indiana10.4%10.2%
Iowa6.1%6.8%
Kansas7.2%6.5%
Kentucky10.8%9.9%
Louisiana7.2%7.2%
Maine8.2%8.1%
Maryland7.2%7.1%
Massachusetts8.7%9.0%
Michigan14.2%13.1%
Minnesota8.3%6.8%
Mississippi9.7%10.8%
Missouri9.7%9.2%
Montana6.3%7.3%
Nebraska4.8%4.7%
Nevada12.3%14.3%
New Hampshire6.6%5.8%
New Jersey9.6%9.7%
New Mexico7.4%8.2%
New York8.7%8.2%
North Carolina11.0%9.8%
North Dakota4.4%3.6%
Ohio10.6%10.3%
Oklahoma6.8%6.9%
Oregon11.4%10.6%
Pennsylvania8.3%9.3%
Rhode Island11.4%11.9%
South Carolina12.0%10.8%
South Dakota4.9%4.4%
Tennessee10.9%9.8%
Texas7.9%8.2%
Utah6.8%7.2%
Vermont7.1%6.0%
Virginia6.9%7.0%
Washington9.2%8.9%
West Virginia8.5%8.6%
Wisconsin8.9%7.8%
Wyoming6.8%6.7%
GuamNANA
Puerto Rico15.6%16.1%
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. July 2010 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: July 2009, and Unemployment rates by State, seasonally adjusted: July 2009 and 2010, 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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