Jobless rates down in 46 states in 2012; employment-population ratios up in 26 states

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics

REGIONAL AND STATE UNEMPLOYMENT -- 2012 ANNUAL AVERAGES


In 2012, annual average unemployment rates declined in 46 states and
the District of Columbia, rose in 2 states, and were unchanged in 2
states, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment-
population ratios increased in 26 states and the District of Columbia,
decreased in 18 states, and were unchanged in 6 states. The U.S.
jobless rate declined by 0.8 percentage point from the prior year to
8.1 percent, and the national employment-population ratio edged up to
58.6 percent.

Read more: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/srgune.nr0.htm

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This is BLS's Annual 2012 Regional and State Unemployment report. As with every BLS news release, there are tables that elaborate on the data.

[Dryvinwhileblind]

1. Everybody Sing!!!...On the Big Rock Candy Mountain...

[jtuck004]

2. Stop that singing and pour that coffee. There are 8 people banging on our windows

wanting your job, you know.

But work hard, because there is pie in the sky when you die.

[Dryvinwhileblind]

3. Can't...I just spilled it all, got fired, now I'm banging on the window...

...I cracked it, SWAT showed up, now I'm no longer homeless! Yay!
Wow!, what? United Incarceration Corporation? No pie?!

[jtuck004]

5. I know the feeling. <G>n/t

[msongs]

4. the democrats-backed republican austerity program will soon put a stop to this nonsense nt