Regional and State Employment and Unemployment (Monthly) News Release — 2011-07-22

NOTE: This news release was reissued on Tuesday, August 09, 2011, to correct data for Missouri. Text and tables C, 5, and 6 were affected. Regional and state unemployment rates were little changed in June. Twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia registered unemployment rate increases, 8 states recorded rate decreases, and 14 states had no rate change, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Thirty-nine states posted unemployment rate decreases from a year earlier, eight states and the District of Columbia reported increases, and three states had no change. The national jobless rate was little changed at 9.2 percent, but was 0.3 percentage point lower than a year earlier. In June, nonfarm payroll employment increased in 26 states and the District of Columbia and decreased in 24 states. The largest over-the-month increase in employment occurred in Texas (+32,000), followed by California (+28,800), Michigan (+18,000), and Minnesota (+13,200).