{"id":1004148656,"date":"2016-07-25T06:43:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T14:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004148656"},"modified":"2022-12-08T10:29:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T18:29:47","slug":"economy-watch-unemployment-rates-among-the-states-mostly-static","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-unemployment-rates-among-the-states-mostly-static\/","title":{"rendered":"Economy Watch: Unemployment Rates Among the States Mostly Static"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Dees Stribling, Contributing Editor<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004148657\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/BLS-unemployment-rate-0616.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004148657\" data-attachment-id=\"1004148657\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-unemployment-rates-among-the-states-mostly-static\/bls-unemployment-rate-0616\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/BLS-unemployment-rate-0616.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"692,534\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Samantha Goldberg&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1469442923&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BLS unemployment rate 0616\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Credit: Bureau of Labor Statistics Regional and State Employment and Unemployment, June 2016&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/BLS-unemployment-rate-0616.jpg?w=692\" class=\"wp-image-1004148657\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/BLS-unemployment-rate-0616.jpg\" alt=\"Credit: Bureau of Labor Statistics Regional and State Employment and Unemployment, June 2016\" width=\"400\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/BLS-unemployment-rate-0616.jpg 692w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/BLS-unemployment-rate-0616.jpg?resize=300,232 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004148657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/pdf\/laus.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bureau of Labor Statistics Regional and State Employment and Unemployment, June 2016<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s some evidence that unemployment rates are stabilizing in many parts of the country, according to the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/pdf\/laus.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a> report on regional and state employment, which was released on Friday. One takeaway: employment has recovered considerably since the recession, but now the rate of recovery is slow to nil.<\/p>\n<p>Compared with May, unemployment rates were significantly higher in June in six states, lower in only one state, and stable in 43 states and the District of Columbia, the BLS reported. Compared with the same month a year ago, 16 states and D.C. had notable unemployment rate decreases, two states suffered increases, and 32 states saw no significant change.<\/p>\n<p>Though battered by the oil slump, South Dakota continued to experience the lowest unemployment rate among the states, at 2.7 percent, possibly because the influx of workers has virtually stopped, and people unable to find energy-sector work have left the state. Alaska had the highest unemployment rate, 6.7 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The national jobless rate in June rose by 0.2 percentage points from May to 4.9 percent but was 0.4 percentage points lower than in June 2015. That month-over-month rise was probably a good sign, as more people believed they had a shot at getting into the workforce, and therefore began looking for work (and so were counted as unemployed).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While U.S. employment has recovered considerably since the Great Recession, the rate of recovery is now slow to nil. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1023,"featured_media":1004148657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23891,21742],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004148656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-latest"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Economy Watch: Unemployment Rates Among the States Mostly Static - 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