{"id":411764,"date":"2010-03-10T11:03:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T16:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/economics\/2010\/03\/10\/unemployment-rates-by-state-most-regions-added-jobs-in-january\/"},"modified":"2010-03-10T11:03:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T16:03:12","slug":"unemployment-rates-by-state-most-regions-added-jobs-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/411764","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment Rates, by State: Most Regions Added Jobs in January"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thirty states and the District of Columbia recorded unemployment rate increases in January from a month earlier, while states registered rate decreases, the Labor Department said. But in a sign the job market is inching toward recovery 31 states added jobs in the first month of the year.<\/p>\n

In January, the overall U.S. unemployment rate fell to 9.7% from 10% a month earlier, while the nation’s economy shed 26,000 jobs. The job losses continued in February amid strong weather effects, but the jobless rate remained at 9.7%.<\/p>\n

Michigan continued to have the highest unemployment rate in the nation, though the state posted a month-over-month decline of 0.2 percentage point. Mississippi notched the biggest gain in its jobless rate, increasing 0.4 percentage point to 10.9%.<\/p>\n

Unemployment Rate, by State<\/h2>\n