Regional and State Employment and Unemployment (Monthly) News Release — 2009-08-21

(NOTE: This release was reissued on Tuesday, August 25, 2009, to correct labor force and unemployment data for Connecticut and the five other New England States. Although most labor force and unemployment levels changed for July 2009, season- ally adjusted unemployment rates did not change. Data from April 2009 forward were subject to revision; some unemployment rates did change for those earlier months by 0.1 percentage point. See the note below. This correction affected tables 3 and 4, but did not affect the analysis portion of the release.) Regional and state unemployment rates were generally little changed in July. Twenty-six states reported over-the-month unemployment rate increases, 17 states and the District of Columbia registered rate de- creases, and 7 states had no rate change, the Bureau of Labor Statis- tics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Over the year, jobless rates increased in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.