State Unemployment numbers
 

Table A. States with unemployment rates significantly differ-
ent from that of the U.S., March 2009, seasonally adjusted
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State | Rate(p)
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United States (1) ...................| 8.5
|
Arkansas ............................| 6.5
California ..........................| 11.2
Colorado ............................| 7.5
Connecticut .........................| 7.5
Delaware ............................| 7.7
District of Columbia ................| 9.8
Florida .............................| 9.7
Hawaii ..............................| 7.1
Idaho ...............................| 7.0
Indiana .............................| 10.0
|
Iowa ................................| 5.2
Kansas ..............................| 6.1
Kentucky ............................| 9.8
Louisiana ...........................| 5.8
Maryland ............................| 6.9
Michigan ............................| 12.6
Montana .............................| 6.1
Nebraska ............................| 4.6
Nevada ..............................| 10.4
New Hampshire .......................| 6.2
|
New Mexico ..........................| 5.9
New York ............................| 7.8
North Carolina ......................| 10.8
North Dakota ........................| 4.2
Ohio ................................| 9.7
Oklahoma ............................| 5.9
Oregon ..............................| 12.1
Pennsylvania ........................| 7.8
Rhode Island ........................| 10.5
South Carolina ......................| 11.4
|
South Dakota ........................| 4.9
Tennessee ...........................| 9.6
Texas ...............................| 6.7
Utah ................................| 5.2
Vermont .............................| 7.2
Virginia ............................| 6.8
West Virginia .......................| 6.9
Wyoming .............................| 4.5
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1 Data are not preliminary.
p = preliminary.

There is much more great information on the site http://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm

Incomplete?

Arizona, Alabama, Alaska, Washington, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Mississippi, Georgia, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maine?

Some big states missing...

Louisiana doing pretty good compared to other southern states like the carolinas.

Yeah I find the Carolina's numbers pretty surprisingly high, Oregon too but for different reasons. With all the gloom I hear about New York's economy, 7.8% is looking pretty good (1.1% away from "booming" Texas).

I'm surprised at Oregon.

Louisiana is still experiencing "Recovering from Hurricane Katrina" growth... but it's total employment is still way down from pre-hurricane levels.

Unemployment rate is a poor proxy for how well a place is doing economically because trends in both labor force population and employment affect it. For example, Milwaukee has a pretty low unemployment rate... but it's not because it's growing jobs or losing few jobs... it's because it's labor force is shrinking so rapidly. The Carolinas have very high unemployment rates because their labor force populations continue to grow (since they've long been seen as desirable employment markets) despite catastrophic job loss. Few people who glance at unemployment rates dig beneath the surface to understand what affects these numbers. This is why I hate it when the media always uses unemployment rates to sell the economic narrative.

Ah yes. Good analysis. So what indicator if any do you think best tells the employment story?

A careful reading of the above entry reveals that we are still losing jobs on the whole....