Regional and State Employment and Unemployment (Monthly) News Release — 2012-08-17

(NOTE: This news release was reissued on August 31, 2012. It contains corrections to previously released employment data in table 5, and to the count of states with over-the-month employment gains and losses in paragraph two of the text. Data for July 2012 were corrected for South Carolina total nonfarm, government, and local government. Corrected data were loaded into the CES State and Area database on August 31, 2012, and are available at www.bls.gov/sae/data.htm. A complete listing of corrected series is available at www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.) Regional and state unemployment rates were generally little changed or slightly higher in July. Forty-four states recorded unemployment rate increases, two states and the District of Columbia posted rate decreases, and four 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, four states experienced increases, and two had no change.