For release 10:00 a.m. (EDT) Friday, May 20, 2011 USDL-11-0724
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MASS LAYOFFS -- APRIL 2011
Employers took 1,564 mass layoff actions in April involving 143,927 workers, seasonally
adjusted, as measured by new filings for unemployment insurance benefits during the
month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Each mass layoff involved
at least 50 workers from a single employer. The number of mass layoff events in April
increased by 278 from March, and the number of associated initial claims increased by
25,404. In April, 327 mass layoff events were reported in the manufacturing sector,
seasonally adjusted, resulting in 35,022 initial claims; both figures increased over
the month. (See table 1.)
The national unemployment rate was 9.0 percent in April, up from 8.8 percent the prior
month but down from 9.8 percent a year earlier. In April, total nonfarm payroll
employment increased by 244,000 over the month and by 1,313,000 from a year earlier.
Industry Distribution (Not Seasonally Adjusted)
The number of mass layoff events in April was 1,750, not seasonally adjusted, resulting
in 189,919 initial claims. The number of mass layoff events was down by 90 from April
2010, and associated initial claims decreased by 9,771. (See table 2.) Eleven of the
19 major industry sectors in the private economy reported over-the-year declines in
initial claims, with the largest decreases occurring in manufacturing, information, and
professional and technical services. The six-digit industry with the largest number of
initial claims in April 2011 was school and employee bus transportation. (See table A.
The table includes both publicly and privately owned entities.)
Table A. Industries with the largest number of mass layoff initial claims in April 2011,
not seasonally adjusted
April peak
Industry
Initial claims Year Initial claims
School and employee bus transportation ........ 23,573 2011 23,573
Temporary help services (1) ................... 13,445 2001 17,507
Food service contractors ...................... 11,002 2011 11,002
Motion picture and video production ........... 4,440 1997 15,908
Tax preparation services ...................... 4,316 2010 6,514
Professional employer organizations (1) ....... 4,289 2009 4,372
Light truck and utility vehicle manufacturing . (2) 1997 4,978
Discount department stores .................... 3,273 2009 4,462
Hotels and motels, except casino hotels ....... 3,102 2010 4,130
All other motor vehicle parts manufacturing ... 3,093 2011 3,093
1 See the Technical Note for more information on these industries.
2 Data do not meet BLS or state agency disclosure standards.
The manufacturing sector accounted for 23 percent of all mass layoff events and 25
percent of initial claims filed in April. A year earlier, manufacturing also made up 23
percent of events but covered 28 percent of all initial claims. Within manufacturing,
the number of claimants in April was greatest in the transportation equipment and food
subsectors. Thirteen of the 21 manufacturing subsectors experienced over-the-year
decreases in initial claims, with the largest declines occurring in transportation
equipment and machinery. (See table 3.)
Geographic Distribution (Not Seasonally Adjusted)
Three of the 4 regions and 6 of the 9 divisions experienced over-the-year decreases in
initial claims due to mass layoffs in April. Among the census regions, the West
registered the largest over-the-year decrease in initial claims. Of the geographic
divisions, the Pacific had the largest over-the-year decline in initial claims.
(See table 5.)The Middle Atlantic and East South Central divisions registered the
largest over-the-year increases in initial claims. The over-the-year increase in the
Middle Atlantic followed eight consecutive months of over-the-year decreases in initial
claims.
California recorded the highest number of initial claims in April, followed by New York,
New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Twenty-nine states experienced over-the-year decreases
in initial claims, led by California, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and South Carolina.
(See table 6.)
Note
The monthly data series in this release cover mass layoffs of 50 or more workers beginning
in a given month, regardless of the duration of the layoffs. For private nonfarm
establishments, information on the length of the layoff is obtained later and issued in a
quarterly release that reports on mass layoffs lasting more than 30 days (referred to as
"extended mass layoffs"). The quarterly release provides more information on the industry
classification and location of the establishment and on the demographics of the laid-off
workers. Because monthly figures include short-term layoffs of 30 days or less, the sum of the
figures for the 3 months in a quarter will be higher than the quarterly figure for mass
layoffs of more than 30 days. (See table 4.) See the Technical Note for more detailed
definitions.
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The Mass Layoffs news release for May is scheduled to be released on Wednesday, June 22,
2011, at 10:00 a.m. (EDT).
Technical Note
The Mass Layoff Statistics (MLS) program is a federal-state program
that uses a standardized automated approach to identifying, describing,
and tracking the effects of major job cutbacks, using data from each
state's unemployment insurance database. Each month, states report on
employers which have at least 50 initial claims filed against them during
a consecutive 5-week period. These employers then are contacted by the
state agency to determine whether these separations lasted 31 days or
longer, and, if so, other information concerning the layoff is collected.
States report on layoffs lasting more than 1 month on a quarterly basis.
A given month contains an aggregation of the weekly unemployment
insurance claims filings for the Sunday through Saturday weeks in that
month. All weeks are included for the particular month, except if the
first day of the month falls on Saturday. In this case, the week is
included in the prior month's tabulations. This means that some months
will contain 4 weeks and others, 5 weeks. The number of weeks in a given
month may be different from year to year, and the number of weeks in a
year may vary. Therefore, analysis of over-the-month and over-the-year
change in not seasonally adjusted series should take this calendar effect
into consideration.
The MLS program resumed operations in April 1995 after it had been
terminated in November 1992 due to lack of funding. Prior to April 1995,
monthly layoff statistics were not available.
Information in this release will be made available to sensory impaired
individuals upon request. Voice phone: (202) 691-5200; Federal Relay
Service: (800) 877-8339.
Definitions
Employer. Employers in the MLS program include those covered by state
unemployment insurance laws. Information on employers is obtained from the
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program, which is adminis-
tered by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
Industry. Employers are classified according to the 2007 version of the
North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). For temporary help
and professional employers organization industries, monthly MLS-related
statistics generally reflect layoffs related to underlying client companies
in other industries. An individual layoff action at a client company can
be small, but when initial claimants associated with many such layoffs are
assigned to a temporary help or professional employer organization firm, a
mass layoff event may trigger.
Initial claimant. A person who files any notice of unemployment to
initiate a request either for a determination of entitlement to and
eligibility for compensation, or for a subsequent period of unemployment
within a benefit year or period of eligibility.
Mass layoff event. Fifty or more initial claims for unemployment insur-
ance benefits filed against an employer during a 5-week period, regardless
of duration.
Seasonal adjustment
Effective with the release of data for January 2005, BLS began publish-
ing six seasonally adjusted monthly MLS series. The six series are the
numbers of mass layoff events and mass layoff initial claims for the total,
private nonfarm, and manufacturing sectors.
Seasonal adjustment is the process of estimating and removing the effect
on time series data of regularly recurring seasonal events such as changes
in the weather, holidays, and the beginning and ending of the school year.
The use of seasonal adjustment makes it easier to observe fundamental changes
in time series, particularly those associated with general economic expan-
sions and contractions.
The MLS data are seasonally adjusted using the X-12-ARIMA seasonal adjust-
ment method on a concurrent basis. Concurrent seasonal adjustment uses all
available monthly estimates, including those for the current month, in devel-
oping seasonal adjustment factors. Revisions to the most recent 5 years
of seasonally adjusted data will be made once a year with the issuance of
December data. Before the data are seasonally adjusted, prior adjustments
are made to the original data to adjust them for differences in the number
of weeks used to calculate the monthly data. Because weekly unemployment
insurance claims are aggregated to form monthly data, a particular month's
value could be calculated with 5 weeks of data in 1 year and 4 weeks in
another. The effects of these differences could seriously distort the sea-
sonal factors if they were ignored in the seasonal adjustment process. These
effects are modeled in the X-12-ARIMA program and are permanently removed from
the final seasonally adjusted series.
Table 1. Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance, May 2007 to
April 2011, seasonally adjusted
Total Private nonfarm Manufacturing
Date
Initial Initial Initial
Events claimants Events claimants Events claimants
2007
May ........................ 1,159 113,578 1,064 106,573 347 44,637
June ....................... 1,207 127,776 1,097 119,007 342 37,552
July ....................... 1,295 136,168 1,193 128,208 401 55,906
August ..................... 1,217 122,450 1,126 115,305 312 34,877
September .................. 1,233 121,998 1,140 115,675 430 51,731
October .................... 1,330 133,063 1,210 124,455 439 56,970
November ................... 1,397 145,339 1,269 135,651 408 56,985
December ................... 1,553 154,275 1,435 144,785 463 59,445
2008
January .................... 1,437 146,900 1,302 135,622 431 55,562
February ................... 1,604 175,128 1,441 163,475 471 59,118
March ...................... 1,500 150,502 1,388 140,424 435 56,156
April ...................... 1,292 128,901 1,162 118,016 449 58,402
May ........................ 1,582 161,944 1,444 152,230 468 62,452
June ....................... 1,631 164,508 1,488 153,014 491 68,198
July ....................... 1,581 164,497 1,443 153,720 463 62,425
August ..................... 1,791 181,107 1,653 171,705 583 77,874
September .................. 2,192 233,034 2,024 219,532 635 82,471
October .................... 2,221 229,254 2,062 215,787 697 92,408
November ................... 2,415 228,107 2,256 214,631 900 102,284
December ................... 2,443 245,661 2,264 231,138 927 114,280
2009
January .................... 2,272 238,717 2,103 224,850 756 100,927
February ................... 2,801 315,507 2,636 300,042 1,194 138,583
March ...................... 2,950 295,543 2,758 279,027 1,205 144,713
April ...................... 2,579 251,032 2,368 234,796 997 121,435
May ........................ 2,758 288,319 2,557 271,425 1,187 147,548
June ....................... 2,506 250,275 2,293 232,814 1,048 135,389
July ....................... 2,192 223,697 1,977 203,365 620 72,932
August ..................... 2,419 220,262 2,177 201,951 778 83,837
September .................. 2,305 219,924 2,095 204,596 799 91,665
October .................... 1,975 195,347 1,780 177,977 570 63,646
November ................... 1,754 154,223 1,585 141,439 464 51,891
December ................... 1,725 156,274 1,545 141,649 420 43,584
2010
January .................... 1,716 171,633 1,541 157,597 494 60,059
February ................... 1,492 149,369 1,318 135,490 351 40,564
March ...................... 1,635 146,901 1,436 131,953 347 37,273
April ...................... 1,675 159,358 1,498 143,814 371 48,646
May ........................ 1,665 155,352 1,405 133,913 314 30,967
June ....................... 1,729 153,937 1,504 134,837 326 32,646
July ....................... 1,528 138,581 1,316 121,378 296 30,752
August ..................... 1,658 163,325 1,453 141,489 409 47,668
September .................. 1,541 137,941 1,331 119,654 336 34,641
October .................... 1,649 147,204 1,445 130,264 353 37,394
November ................... 1,579 148,800 1,397 133,845 350 39,072
December ................... 1,483 137,992 1,272 122,688 319 35,977
2011
January .................... 1,534 149,799 1,344 132,730 341 39,189
February ................... 1,421 130,818 1,220 116,190 291 26,060
March ...................... 1,286 118,523 1,128 105,636 253 27,619
April ...................... 1,564 143,927 1,401 129,702 327 35,022
Table 2. Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance, May 2007 to
April 2011, not seasonally adjusted
Total Private nonfarm Manufacturing
Date
Initial Initial Initial
Events claimants Events claimants Events claimants
2007
May ........................ 923 85,816 856 81,153 224 26,527
June ....................... 1,599 172,810 1,318 148,669 313 36,571
July ....................... 1,599 175,419 1,450 164,939 684 101,390
August ..................... 963 93,458 908 88,345 220 23,361
September .................. 717 67,385 667 64,026 246 29,381
October .................... 1,083 108,455 929 97,716 338 50,918
November ................... 1,799 198,220 1,593 181,184 514 75,413
December ................... 2,167 224,214 2,071 216,898 699 91,754
2008
January .................... 1,647 154,503 1,520 144,191 488 54,418
February ................... 1,269 119,508 1,178 113,587 361 42,527
March ...................... 1,089 114,541 1,039 110,147 333 43,740
April ...................... 1,272 130,810 1,172 121,625 394 48,188
May ........................ 1,552 159,471 1,438 150,462 388 51,698
June ....................... 1,622 166,742 1,315 140,916 309 42,097
July ....................... 1,891 200,382 1,687 186,018 760 108,733
August ..................... 1,427 139,999 1,343 133,146 414 51,912
September .................. 1,292 129,586 1,202 122,505 361 46,391
October .................... 2,125 221,784 1,917 205,553 689 100,457
November ................... 2,574 241,589 2,389 226,657 997 107,620
December ................... 3,377 351,305 3,232 340,220 1,378 172,529
2009
January .................... 3,806 388,813 3,633 375,293 1,461 172,757
February ................... 2,262 218,438 2,173 210,755 945 103,588
March ...................... 2,191 228,387 2,107 221,397 940 114,747
April ...................... 2,547 256,930 2,385 243,321 887 100,872
May ........................ 2,738 289,628 2,572 274,047 1,005 123,683
June ....................... 2,519 256,357 2,051 216,063 674 85,726
July ....................... 3,054 336,654 2,659 296,589 1,133 154,208
August ..................... 1,428 125,024 1,334 117,193 436 41,151
September .................. 1,371 123,177 1,258 115,141 448 51,126
October .................... 1,934 193,904 1,678 172,883 566 69,655
November ................... 1,870 164,496 1,679 150,751 517 55,053
December ................... 2,310 214,648 2,166 203,655 615 64,540
2010
January .................... 2,860 278,679 2,682 265,074 962 104,846
February ................... 1,183 102,818 1,091 96,022 282 30,728
March ...................... 1,197 111,727 1,111 105,514 273 29,745
April ...................... 1,840 199,690 1,697 184,654 424 55,178
May ........................ 1,354 123,333 1,170 109,203 216 19,334
June ....................... 1,861 171,190 1,355 125,872 212 21,083
July ....................... 2,124 206,254 1,732 172,248 532 64,200
August ..................... 976 92,435 897 83,021 230 23,088
September .................. 920 77,654 806 67,987 187 19,403
October .................... 1,642 148,638 1,373 127,865 351 40,861
November ................... 1,676 158,048 1,477 142,591 389 41,383
December ................... 1,931 184,130 1,763 172,881 465 52,816
2011
January .................... 2,558 246,463 2,372 229,765 693 75,006
February ................... 1,024 85,585 919 78,718 222 18,471
March ...................... 908 85,095 844 80,014 191 20,869
April ...................... 1,750 189,919 1,625 176,478 397 47,104
Table 3. Industry distribution: Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance
Initial claimants for
Mass layoff events unemployment insurance
Industry
April February March April April February March April
2010 2011 2011 2011 2010 2011 2011 2011
Seasonally adjusted
Total ..................................... 1,675 1,421 1,286 1,564 159,358 130,818 118,523 143,927
Total, private nonfarm ........................ 1,498 1,220 1,128 1,401 143,814 116,190 105,636 129,702
Manufacturing ............................... 371 291 253 327 48,646 26,060 27,619 35,022
Not seasonally adjusted
Total (1) ................................. 1,840 1,024 908 1,750 199,690 85,585 85,095 189,919
Total, private .................................. 1,761 976 874 1,685 191,664 82,230 82,046 183,436
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting .. 64 57 30 60 7,010 3,512 2,032 6,958
Total, private nonfarm ........................ 1,697 919 844 1,625 184,654 78,718 80,014 176,478
Mining ...................................... 7 4 3 4 399 322 247 270
Utilities ................................... (2) (2) 4 (2) (2) (2) 547 (2)
Construction ................................ 163 104 99 161 11,947 7,003 7,569 12,121
Manufacturing ............................... 424 222 191 397 55,178 18,471 20,869 47,104
Food .................................... 100 58 45 84 10,200 5,115 4,338 9,064
Beverage and tobacco products ........... (2) 5 4 6 (2) 287 242 438
Textile mills ........................... 7 5 3 5 1,296 468 328 792
Textile product mills ................... 5 4 3 6 414 270 481 536
Apparel ................................. 16 5 4 10 1,428 693 374 964
Leather and allied products ............. - (2) - - - (2) - -
Wood products ........................... 17 22 24 19 1,591 1,872 2,354 1,681
Paper ................................... 14 12 7 6 1,134 750 622 590
Printing and related support activities . 9 6 5 8 860 679 359 858
Petroleum and coal products ............. (2) (2) (2) - (2) (2) (2) -
Chemicals ............................... 7 7 (2) 5 400 759 (2) 453
Plastics and rubber products ............ 10 5 4 21 719 262 321 2,113
Nonmetallic mineral products ............ 22 16 5 9 1,882 1,141 404 926
Primary metals .......................... 18 8 8 12 1,473 794 536 944
Fabricated metal products ............... 21 8 12 21 1,581 446 916 1,758
Machinery ............................... 41 11 11 16 4,456 897 1,077 2,552
Computer and electronic products ........ 27 13 10 18 1,964 847 808 1,675
Electrical equipment and appliances ..... 12 4 8 16 1,756 1,078 2,886 1,736
Transportation equipment ................ 73 19 19 117 22,071 1,275 2,887 18,328
Furniture and related products .......... 12 9 10 9 919 533 1,099 831
Miscellaneous manufacturing ............. 10 (2) 5 9 833 (2) 530 865
Wholesale trade ............................. 25 24 18 27 2,224 2,187 1,393 2,005
Retail trade ................................ 156 114 89 147 16,188 9,346 9,012 16,501
Transportation and warehousing .............. 178 49 44 194 23,013 5,630 5,133 26,537
Information ................................. 50 58 36 42 8,383 8,959 3,788 5,689
Finance and insurance ....................... 64 22 19 42 4,579 1,407 1,354 3,482
Real estate and rental and leasing .......... 22 7 6 15 1,388 369 452 1,389
Professional and technical services ......... 90 43 35 80 11,110 3,729 3,771 8,572
Management of companies and enterprises ..... (2) (2) 3 7 (2) (2) 194 550
Administrative and waste services ........... 241 166 151 262 21,073 13,894 11,303 23,380
Educational services ........................ 7 8 4 17 958 474 265 2,522
Health care and social assistance ........... 58 28 33 46 4,991 1,685 2,038 3,397
Arts, entertainment, and recreation ......... 57 11 13 45 4,838 629 893 4,650
Accommodation and food services ............. 131 50 88 127 16,214 4,088 10,491 17,269
Other services, except public administration 16 4 8 9 1,434 161 695 845
Unclassified ................................ - - - (2) - - - (2)
Government ...................................... 79 48 34 65 8,026 3,355 3,049 6,483
Federal ..................................... 16 5 5 6 1,393 384 532 582
State ....................................... 18 17 10 18 2,188 1,029 1,389 1,714
Local ....................................... 45 26 19 41 4,445 1,942 1,128 4,187
1 Data were reported by all states and the District of Columbia.
2 Data do not meet BLS or state agency disclosure standards.
NOTE: Dash represents zero.
Table 4. Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance, April 2009 to April 2011, not seasonally adjusted
Private nonfarm
Total mass layoffs Extended mass layoffs
Date Mass layoffs lasting more than 30 days Realization rates (1)
Initial Initial Initial Initial
Events claimants Events claimants Events claimants Events claimants
2009
April ...................... 2,547 256,930 2,385 243,321
May ........................ 2,738 289,628 2,572 274,047
June ....................... 2,519 256,357 2,051 216,063
Second Quarter ............. 7,804 802,915 7,008 733,431 3,395 731,049 48.4 99.7
July ....................... 3,054 336,654 2,659 296,589
August ..................... 1,428 125,024 1,334 117,193
September .................. 1,371 123,177 1,258 115,141
Third Quarter .............. 5,853 584,855 5,251 528,923 2,034 406,823 38.7 76.9
October .................... 1,934 193,904 1,678 172,883
November ................... 1,870 164,496 1,679 150,751
December ................... 2,310 214,648 2,166 203,655
Fourth Quarter ............. 6,114 573,048 5,523 527,289 2,416 468,577 43.7 88.9
2010
January .................... 2,860 278,679 2,682 265,074
February ................... 1,183 102,818 1,091 96,022
March ...................... 1,197 111,727 1,111 105,514
First Quarter .............. 5,240 493,224 4,884 466,610 1,870 (r)368,642 38.3 79.0
April ...................... 1,840 199,690 1,697 184,654
May ........................ 1,354 123,333 1,170 109,203
June ....................... 1,861 171,190 1,355 125,872
Second Quarter ............. 5,055 494,213 4,222 419,729 2,008 (r)395,573 47.6 94.2
July ....................... 2,124 206,254 1,732 172,248
August ..................... 976 92,435 897 83,021
September .................. 920 77,654 806 67,987
Third Quarter .............. 4,020 376,343 3,435 323,256 1,370 (r)259,886 39.9 (r)80.4
October .................... 1,642 148,638 1,373 127,865
November ................... 1,676 158,048 1,477 142,591
December ................... 1,931 184,130 1,763 172,881
Fourth Quarter ............. 5,249 490,816 4,613 443,337 (r)1,999 (r)388,285 (r)43.3 (r)87.6
2011
January .................... 2,558 246,463 2,372 229,765
February ................... 1,024 85,585 919 78,718
March ...................... 908 85,095 844 80,014
First Quarter .............. 4,490 417,143 4,135 388,497 (2)(p)1,397 (2)(p)179,686 (p)33.8 (p)46.3
April ...................... 1,750 189,919 1,625 176,478
1 The event realization rate is the percentage of all private nonfarm mass layoff events lasting more than 30 days. The
initial claimant realization rate is the percentage of all private nonfarm mass layoff initial claimants associated with layoffs
lasting more than 30 days.
2 These quarterly numbers are provisional and will be revised as more data on these layoffs become available. Experience suggest
that the number of extended mass layoff events is generally revised upwards by less than 10 percent and the number of initial claimants
associated with such events increases by 25-40 percent.
r = revised.
p = preliminary.
Table 5. Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance by census region and division, not
seasonally adjusted
Initial claimants for
Mass layoff events unemployment insurance
Census region and division
April February March April April February March April
2010 2011 2011 2011 2010 2011 2011 2011
United States (1) ... 1,840 1,024 908 1,750 199,690 85,585 85,095 189,919
Northeast ................... 397 173 169 402 48,396 16,047 15,540 54,129
New England ............. 81 32 22 67 9,523 4,259 1,883 8,926
Middle Atlantic ......... 316 141 147 335 38,873 11,788 13,657 45,203
South ....................... 412 260 250 431 43,503 19,998 26,112 42,685
South Atlantic .......... 214 166 116 210 20,768 11,371 9,765 17,371
East South Central ...... 80 44 61 125 11,005 4,343 6,539 16,048
West South Central ...... 118 50 73 96 11,730 4,284 9,808 9,266
Midwest ..................... 364 180 172 383 44,740 15,075 17,168 44,126
East North Central ...... 290 130 124 310 37,448 11,550 11,640 37,250
West North Central ...... 74 50 48 73 7,292 3,525 5,528 6,876
West ........................ 667 411 317 534 63,051 34,465 26,275 48,979
Mountain ................ 101 35 46 118 11,433 2,440 4,292 12,547
Pacific ................. 566 376 271 416 51,618 32,025 21,983 36,432
1 See footnote 1, table 3.
NOTE: The States (including the District of Columbia) that comprise the census divisions are: New England:
Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont; Middle Atlantic: New Jersey, New York,
and Pennsylvania; South Atlantic: Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia; East South Central: Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee; West South
Central: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas; East North Central: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and
Wisconsin; West North Central: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota; Mountain:
Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming; and Pacific: Alaska, California, Hawaii,
Oregon, and Washington.
Table 6. State distribution: Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance,
not seasonally adjusted
Initial claimants for
Mass layoff events unemployment insurance
State
April February March April April February March April
2010 2011 2011 2011 2010 2011 2011 2011
Total (1) ............ 1,840 1,024 908 1,750 199,690 85,585 85,095 189,919
Alabama ................. 17 12 18 28 2,148 1,583 2,072 3,080
Alaska .................. 11 (2) (2) 9 1,252 (2) (2) 1,137
Arizona ................. 33 12 11 40 4,943 838 1,045 5,635
Arkansas ................ 8 3 3 (2) 1,039 283 232 (2)
California .............. 477 349 230 348 42,426 29,769 17,478 29,264
Colorado ................ 20 4 5 15 2,269 383 557 1,750
Connecticut ............. 9 4 5 10 891 331 410 1,056
Delaware ................ 8 3 - 8 611 239 - 551
District of Columbia .... - (2) - (2) - (2) - (2)
Florida ................. 118 85 56 98 9,139 5,071 4,060 7,600
Georgia ................. 31 28 16 40 3,375 2,221 1,593 3,380
Hawaii .................. 7 3 5 6 672 232 659 420
Idaho ................... 8 4 10 10 533 225 886 896
Illinois ................ 60 35 37 56 7,059 3,508 3,495 6,701
Indiana ................. 32 15 12 41 4,786 1,471 1,336 4,689
Iowa .................... 20 9 10 17 2,876 870 2,060 2,143
Kansas .................. 5 5 5 5 296 308 727 381
Kentucky ................ 40 13 20 56 6,573 1,682 2,387 9,722
Louisiana ............... 32 6 11 22 2,967 518 1,239 1,669
Maine ................... 8 (2) 5 7 754 (2) 575 818
Maryland ................ 6 4 4 5 496 306 431 365
Massachusetts ........... 20 6 7 17 2,202 534 624 2,040
Michigan ................ 44 17 21 50 7,624 1,091 2,359 6,813
Minnesota ............... 8 10 9 16 576 675 707 1,023
Mississippi ............. 5 8 14 27 461 446 1,413 1,987
Missouri ................ 28 17 21 23 2,393 1,038 1,755 2,259
Montana ................. 7 (2) (2) 7 528 (2) (2) 438
Nebraska ................ 10 9 3 9 948 634 279 768
Nevada .................. 15 5 7 23 1,432 394 524 1,703
New Hampshire ........... 14 4 (2) 7 1,663 537 (2) 1,107
New Jersey .............. 69 19 19 70 9,700 2,243 1,494 11,776
New Mexico .............. 8 3 7 9 594 164 640 711
New York ................ 114 45 49 153 15,919 4,161 5,159 22,636
North Carolina (3) ...... 13 27 18 14 1,438 1,984 1,917 1,240
North Dakota ............ (2) - - (2) (2) - - (2)
Ohio .................... 61 30 22 87 8,014 2,473 1,891 11,082
Oklahoma ................ 5 9 5 6 608 1,015 367 392
Oregon .................. 42 9 20 25 4,603 896 2,337 2,886
Pennsylvania ............ 133 77 79 112 13,254 5,384 7,004 10,791
Rhode Island ............ 16 10 (2) 9 2,525 2,125 (2) 2,105
South Carolina .......... 19 5 7 19 3,832 340 489 1,913
South Dakota ............ - - - (2) - - - (2)
Tennessee ............... 18 11 9 14 1,823 632 667 1,259
Texas ................... 73 32 54 67 7,116 2,468 7,970 7,118
Utah .................... 8 6 3 13 889 370 423 1,232
Vermont ................. 14 6 (2) 17 1,488 558 (2) 1,800
Virginia ................ 15 10 13 23 1,489 899 1,102 2,063
Washington .............. 29 13 14 28 2,665 955 1,099 2,725
West Virginia ........... 4 3 (2) (2) 388 216 (2) (2)
Wisconsin ............... 93 33 32 76 9,965 3,007 2,559 7,965
Wyoming ................. (2) - (2) (2) (2) - (2) (2)
Puerto Rico ............. 19 16 11 17 2,252 1,808 1,114 1,676
1 See footnote 1, table 3
2 Data do not meet BLS or state agency disclosure standards.
3 Data starting in November 2010 may not be comparable to prior data due to a change in MLS unemployment insurance
input procedures.
NOTE: Dash represents zero.
United States Department of Labor
