May 28, 2010

State over-the-month and over-the-year unemployment rate changes, April 2010

Number of States with 1-month and 12-month unemployment rate decreases and increases, March�April 2010 and April 2009�April 2010
Period	Decrease	Increase	No change
March�April 2010	34 (D.C.)	6	10
April 2009�April 2010	10	38 (D.C.)	2
Footnotes: (D.C.) The District of Columbia is also in this category.

Unemployment rates, selected States, April 2009, March 2010, and April 2010
State	Unemployment rate			Over-the-month rate change (p)	Over-the-year rate change (p)
State	Apr 2009	Mar 2010	Apr 2010 (p)	Over-the-month rate change (p)	Over-the-year rate change (p)
District of Columbia	9.4	11.5	11.0	-0.5	1.6
Florida	9.9	12.3	12.0	-0.3	2.1
Idaho	7.4	9.4	9.1	-0.3	1.7
Maryland	6.9	7.7	7.5	-0.2	0.6
Minnesota	8.3	7.3	7.2	-0.1	-1.1
North Dakota	4.4	4.0	3.8	-0.2	-0.6
Vermont	7.2	6.6	6.4	-0.2	-0.8
Footnotes: (p) Preliminary.

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