Unemployment

REGIONAL AND STATE EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT: MARCH 2006

Regional and state unemployment rates were generally little changed
in March. Overall, 33 states registered over-the-month unemployment rate
decreases, 9 states recorded increases, and 8 states and the District of
Columbia had no change, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Depart-
ment of Labor reported today. Jobless rates were down over the year in 43
states and the District of Columbia, up in 5 states, and unchanged in 2
states. The national unemployment rate in March, 4.7 percent, was little
changed from that of February, but was down by 0.4 percentage point from a
year earlier.

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