Which dristrict in Indiana has particularly high unemployment rates?
REGIONAL AND STATE EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT: JUNE 2009 Regional and state unemployment rates were generally higher in June. Thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia recorded over-the-month unemployment rate increases, 5 states registered rate decreases, and 7 states had no rate change, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Over the year, jobless rates were higher in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The national unemployment rate, at 9.5 per- cent, was little changed between May and June, but was up 3.9 per- centage points from a year earlier. In June, nonfarm payroll employment decreased in 39 states and the District of Columbia, increased in 10 states, and was unchanged in 1 state. The largest over-the-month decrease in the level of employment occurred in California (-66,500), followed by Texas (-40,600), Ohio (-33,000), and Michigan (-31,300). Kansas experi- enced the largest over-the-month percentage decrease in employme
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana suffered a dramatic hike in its unemployment rate in December, jumping to 8.2 percent from 7.1 percent, the Department of Workforce Development said Tuesday. The Indiana unemployment rate is well above the national seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 7.2 percent. More than 260,000 Hoosiers were without jobs in December, up from 220,000 the previous month. Teresa Voors, commissioner of workforce development, said seven other states also saw unemployment rate increases of greater than 1 percent. “December layoffs in the manufacturing, construction and retail sectors each stand out as major contributors to Indiana’s increase in unemployment,” Voors said. Elkhart County had the highest unemployment, at 15.3 percent. Daviess and Dubois counties, in the southwestern part of the state, recorded the lowest unemployment at 4.8 percent. Marion County’s unemployment rate rose to 7.2 percent. Hamilton County is the lowest in the region, with a 5 percent jobless rate. S
