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(NOTE: Monthly national Mass Layoffs data for April through September 2010
have been found to contain errors in each of the 6 seasonally adjusted series
appearing in the charts, the text, and tables 1 and 3. Not seasonally adjusted
data and regional office news releases are not affected. The corrected
seasonally adjusted estimates for April through September are located in the
Mass Layoffs database at www.bls.gov/mls/#data.)
MASS LAYOFFS -- JUNE 2010
Employers took 1,647 mass layoff actions in June that resulted in the separa-
tion of 145,538 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 action involved at least 50 persons from a
single employer. The number of mass layoff events in June increased by 235 from
the prior month, and the number of associated initial claims increased by 9,749.
In June, 298 mass layoff events were reported in the manufacturing sector, sea-
sonally adjusted, resulting in 29,384 initial claims. (See table 1.)
During the 31 months from December 2007 through June 2010, the total number of
mass layoff events (seasonally adjusted) was 61,852, and the associated number
of initial claims was 6,213,880. (December 2007 was the start of a recession as
designated by the National Bureau of Economic Research.)
The national unemployment rate was 9.5 percent in June, seasonally adjusted, down
from 9.7 percent the prior month and unchanged from a year earlier. In June, total
nonfarm payroll employment decreased by 125,000 over the month and 170,000 from a
year earlier.
Industry Distribution (Not Seasonally Adjusted)
The number of mass layoff events in June was 1,861 on a not seasonally adjusted
basis; the number of associated initial claims was 171,190. (See table 2.) Over
the year, the number of mass layoff events decreased by 658, and associated ini-
tial claims decreased by 85,167. Fifteen of the 19 major industry sectors in the
private economy reported over-the-year decreases in initial claims, led by manu-
facturing. Agriculture and manufacturing reached program lows for the month of
June in terms of initial claimants in 2010. (Data began in April 1995.) Local
government reached a program high in June 2010 with 37,610 initial claims.
The manufacturing sector accounted for 11 percent of all mass layoff events and
12 percent of initial claims filed in June; the lowest proportions in program his-
tory. A year earlier, manufacturing made up 27 percent of events and 33 percent of
initial claims. Within manufacturing, the number of claimants in June 2010 was
greatest in transportation equipment and food. (See table 3.) Eighteen of the 21
manufacturing subsectors experienced over-the-year decreases in initial claims,
led by transportation equipment and machinery; five of these subsectors reached
program lows for June.
The six-digit industry with the largest number of initial claims in June was ele-
mentary and secondary schools. (See table A.) Of the 10 detailed industries in
table A, elementary and secondary schools and executive and legislative offices
reached program highs for the month of June. This table includes both publicly-
and privately-owned entities.
Table A. Industries with the largest number of mass layoff initial claims in
June 2010, not seasonally adjusted
June peak
Industry Initial Initial
claims Year claims
Elementary and secondary schools .............. 31,849 2010 31,849
School and employee bus transportation ........ 17,361 2007 21,611
Food service contractors ...................... 12,649 2007 14,527
Child day care services ....................... 8,333 2007 9,115
Temporary help services (1) ................... 7,363 2000 13,815
Colleges and universities ..................... 2,769 2009 2,849
Other individual and family services .......... 2,710 2006 2,744
Motion picture and video production ........... 2,354 2000 9,435
Executive and legislative offices, combined ... 2,260 2010 2,260
Professional employer organizations (1) ....... 1,781 2009 5,303
1 See the Technical Note for more information on these industries.
Geographic Distribution (Not Seasonally Adjusted)
All 4 regions and 8 of the 9 divisions experienced over-the-year decreases in
initial claims due to mass layoffs in June. Among the census regions, the Midwest
and South registered the largest over-the-year declines in initial claims. Of the
geographic divisions, the East North Central, Pacific, and the Middle Atlantic had
the largest over-the-year declines. (See table 5.)
California recorded the highest number of initial claims in June, followed by
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Florida. Thirty-nine states and the District of
Columbia experienced over-the-year decreases in initial claims, led by Illinois
and California. (See table 6.) Alaska and Washington reached and North Dakota
matched program lows for June in terms of initial claimants in 2010, while
Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, and Wyoming reached program highs for the month.
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 in July 2010 news release is scheduled to be released on Friday,
August 20, 2010, 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, July 2006 to
June 2010, seasonally adjusted
Total Private nonfarm Manufacturing
Date
Initial Initial Initial
Events claimants Events claimants Events claimants
2006
July ....................... 1,182 121,056 1,056 111,432 373 51,691
August ..................... 1,238 135,707 1,104 125,704 372 58,962
September .................. 1,154 124,200 1,043 115,261 393 45,972
October .................... 1,208 123,691 1,094 115,102 409 53,957
November ................... 1,244 135,465 1,128 125,976 413 58,509
December ................... 1,227 134,176 1,123 124,570 376 51,403
2007
January .................... 1,264 130,834 1,113 119,874 404 55,217
February ................... 1,191 121,289 1,075 112,607 374 54,581
March ...................... 1,225 126,391 1,113 117,760 386 48,298
April ...................... 1,268 129,098 1,135 118,175 362 43,205
May ........................ 1,172 118,648 1,070 111,103 345 44,391
June ....................... 1,241 131,394 1,125 122,123 338 37,931
July ....................... 1,274 130,331 1,169 122,381 403 55,973
August ..................... 1,247 126,108 1,158 118,575 323 34,902
September .................. 1,255 123,632 1,160 116,744 436 51,814
October .................... 1,370 137,108 1,248 128,387 449 58,360
November ................... 1,415 148,952 1,289 139,665 424 58,543
December ................... 1,569 155,095 1,448 145,666 483 60,368
2008
January .................... 1,481 151,269 1,348 140,570 436 57,147
February ................... 1,578 162,152 1,432 150,712 470 60,276
March ...................... 1,487 151,539 1,372 141,574 436 56,919
April ...................... 1,327 133,318 1,201 122,651 460 59,377
May ........................ 1,604 170,619 1,465 160,529 468 62,345
June ....................... 1,674 170,329 1,523 158,084 501 68,403
July ....................... 1,531 152,447 1,389 141,707 461 61,417
August ..................... 1,845 189,798 1,711 179,737 607 78,172
September .................. 2,222 235,755 2,049 220,832 634 81,989
October .................... 2,287 239,768 2,125 226,098 721 95,301
November ................... 2,489 240,181 2,334 227,368 929 107,072
December ................... 2,461 243,505 2,277 229,171 962 115,961
2009
January .................... 2,279 251,807 2,115 238,990 764 109,124
February ................... 2,737 289,162 2,592 274,040 1,186 141,264
March ...................... 2,913 295,970 2,715 279,671 1,202 146,381
April ...................... 2,663 263,162 2,461 247,329 1,033 125,093
May ........................ 2,794 306,788 2,589 289,012 1,183 145,166
June ....................... 2,598 260,596 2,371 241,864 1,072 135,844
July ....................... 2,039 196,578 1,818 176,542 565 66,918
August ..................... 2,480 238,911 2,244 218,425 798 87,201
September .................. 2,326 221,639 2,109 204,462 783 90,440
October .................... 2,055 205,502 1,856 187,880 594 65,801
November ................... 1,813 163,823 1,650 151,810 485 54,858
December ................... 1,726 153,127 1,542 138,747 433 44,072
2010
January .................... 1,761 182,261 1,585 168,466 486 62,556
February ................... 1,570 155,718 1,406 142,240 376 43,100
March ...................... 1,628 150,864 1,432 136,446 356 39,290
April ...................... 1,856 200,870 1,686 185,150 448 63,616
May ........................ 1,412 135,789 1,200 119,822 266 22,577
June ....................... 1,647 145,538 1,436 127,928 298 29,384
Table 2. Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance, July 2006 to
June 2010, not seasonally adjusted
Total Private nonfarm Manufacturing
Date
Initial Initial Initial
Events claimants Events claimants Events claimants
2006
July ....................... 1,511 166,857 1,335 154,342 648 96,152
August ..................... 708 72,844 656 69,054 203 28,494
September .................. 865 87,699 785 81,274 296 39,076
October .................... 964 98,804 820 88,133 311 46,737
November ................... 1,315 136,186 1,172 125,009 455 58,473
December ................... 2,249 254,503 2,126 244,783 735 105,462
2007
January .................... 1,407 134,984 1,263 124,475 456 53,615
February ................... 935 86,696 861 82,097 273 36,170
March ...................... 1,082 123,974 1,015 118,431 367 49,886
April ...................... 1,219 127,444 1,115 118,040 309 35,229
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
Table 3. Industry distribution: Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance
Initial claimants for
Mass layoff events unemployment insurance
Industry
June April May June June April May June
2009 2010 2010 2010 2009 2010 2010 2010
Seasonally adjusted
Total ..................................... 2,598 1,856 1,412 1,647 260,596 200,870 135,789 145,538
Total, private nonfarm ........................ 2,371 1,686 1,200 1,436 241,864 185,150 119,822 127,928
Manufacturing ............................... 1,072 448 266 298 135,844 63,616 22,577 29,384
Not seasonally adjusted
Total (1) ................................. 2,519 1,840 1,354 1,861 256,357 199,690 123,333 171,190
Total, private .................................. 2,101 1,761 1,197 1,398 219,548 191,664 110,968 128,691
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting .. 50 64 27 43 3,485 7,010 1,765 2,819
Total, private nonfarm ........................ 2,051 1,697 1,170 1,355 216,063 184,654 109,203 125,872
Mining ...................................... 15 7 (2) (2) 1,147 399 (2) (2)
Utilities ................................... 4 (2) 5 5 246 (2) 449 343
Construction ................................ 136 163 159 121 9,343 11,947 12,129 8,405
Manufacturing ............................... 674 424 216 212 85,726 55,178 19,334 21,083
Food .................................... 48 100 47 46 4,395 10,200 4,015 3,315
Beverage and tobacco products ........... (2) (2) 5 5 (2) (2) 386 259
Textile mills ........................... 11 7 3 4 1,563 1,296 391 584
Textile product mills ................... 4 5 3 (2) 214 414 407 (2)
Apparel ................................. 16 16 8 7 1,683 1,428 498 737
Leather and allied products ............. (2) - - (2) (2) - - (2)
Wood products ........................... 29 17 11 20 2,435 1,591 913 2,012
Paper ................................... 13 14 3 4 968 1,134 277 382
Printing and related support activities . 18 9 12 12 1,552 860 1,065 878
Petroleum and coal products ............. (2) (2) 3 - (2) (2) 205 -
Chemicals ............................... 13 7 8 3 1,013 400 530 375
Plastics and rubber products ............ 35 10 6 5 3,697 719 329 353
Nonmetallic mineral products ............ 25 22 5 9 1,645 1,882 342 492
Primary metals .......................... 45 18 12 9 6,496 1,473 1,147 762
Fabricated metal products ............... 74 21 12 8 6,846 1,581 910 621
Machinery ............................... 74 41 20 16 14,644 4,456 1,971 2,329
Computer and electronic products ........ 63 27 13 8 6,145 1,964 1,015 654
Electrical equipment and appliances ..... 30 12 11 5 4,344 1,756 865 734
Transportation equipment ................ 139 73 20 34 24,865 22,071 2,860 4,474
Furniture and related products .......... 24 12 5 11 2,337 919 409 1,560
Miscellaneous manufacturing ............. 9 10 9 3 644 833 799 232
Wholesale trade ............................. 50 25 18 14 4,858 2,224 1,183 955
Retail trade ................................ 155 156 121 107 15,318 16,188 9,982 10,102
Transportation and warehousing .............. 184 178 47 159 23,792 23,013 4,781 19,790
Information ................................. 53 50 41 41 6,018 8,383 6,310 4,321
Finance and insurance ....................... 34 64 23 39 2,239 4,579 1,761 2,621
Real estate and rental and leasing .......... 20 22 9 8 1,590 1,388 698 437
Professional and technical services ......... 53 90 61 30 4,503 11,110 5,534 2,970
Management of companies and enterprises ..... 8 (2) (2) (2) 1,164 (2) (2) (2)
Administrative and waste services ........... 239 241 175 175 19,150 21,073 17,363 14,283
Educational services ........................ 28 7 10 40 2,295 958 766 2,588
Health care and social assistance ........... 173 58 84 174 13,948 4,991 7,337 14,283
Arts, entertainment, and recreation ......... 45 57 32 29 2,671 4,838 2,063 1,764
Accommodation and food services ............. 136 131 129 141 18,499 16,214 16,045 18,121
Other services, except public administration 42 16 34 54 3,424 1,434 2,933 3,284
Unclassified ................................ 2 - - - 132 - - -
Government ...................................... 418 79 157 463 36,809 8,026 12,365 42,499
Federal ..................................... 15 16 19 22 1,124 1,393 1,864 2,076
State ....................................... 38 18 39 37 2,821 2,188 2,904 2,813
Local ....................................... 365 45 99 404 32,864 4,445 7,597 37,610
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 2008 to June 2010, 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
2008
April ...................... 1,272 130,810 1,172 121,625
May ........................ 1,552 159,471 1,438 150,462
June ....................... 1,622 166,742 1,315 140,916
Second Quarter ............. 4,446 457,023 3,925 413,003 1,756 339,630 44.7 82.2
July ....................... 1,891 200,382 1,687 186,018
August ..................... 1,427 139,999 1,343 133,146
September .................. 1,292 129,586 1,202 122,505
Third Quarter .............. 4,610 469,967 4,232 441,669 1,581 304,340 37.4 68.9
October .................... 2,125 221,784 1,917 205,553
November ................... 2,574 241,589 2,389 226,657
December ................... 3,377 351,305 3,232 340,220
Fourth Quarter ............. 8,076 814,678 7,538 772,430 3,582 766,780 47.5 99.3
2009
January .................... 3,806 388,813 3,633 375,293
February ................... 2,262 218,438 2,173 210,755
March ...................... 2,191 228,387 2,107 221,397
First Quarter .............. 8,259 835,638 7,913 807,445 3,979 835,551 50.3 103.5
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 3,395 731,035 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 2,034 406,715 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 2,419 466,539 43.8 88.5
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 (2)(p)1,564 (2)(p)214,204 (p)32.0 (p)45.9
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
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 sug-
gests that the number of extended mass layoff events is generally revised upwards by less than 10 percent and the number of ini-
tial claimants associated with such events increases by 25-40 percent.
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
June April May June June April May June
2009 2010 2010 2010 2009 2010 2010 2010
United States (1) ... 2,519 1,840 1,354 1,861 256,357 199,690 123,333 171,190
Northeast ................... 428 397 203 288 46,593 48,396 17,575 32,587
New England ............. 63 81 29 54 6,516 9,523 2,421 6,003
Middle Atlantic ......... 365 316 174 234 40,077 38,873 15,154 26,584
South ....................... 620 412 428 442 61,962 43,503 38,299 39,969
South Atlantic .......... 354 214 216 267 31,988 20,768 19,282 23,150
East South Central ...... 128 80 94 73 16,589 11,005 8,431 7,108
West South Central ...... 138 118 118 102 13,385 11,730 10,586 9,711
Midwest ..................... 592 364 261 390 76,301 44,740 26,176 39,201
East North Central ...... 469 290 175 290 59,347 37,448 17,981 29,931
West North Central ...... 123 74 86 100 16,954 7,292 8,195 9,270
West ........................ 879 667 462 741 71,501 63,051 41,283 59,433
Mountain ................ 90 101 73 105 7,184 11,433 6,357 9,136
Pacific ................. 789 566 389 636 64,317 51,618 34,926 50,297
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 Wis-
consin; 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
June April May June June April May June
2009 2010 2010 2010 2009 2010 2010 2010
Total (1) ............ 2,519 1,840 1,354 1,861 256,357 199,690 123,333 171,190
Alabama ................. 49 17 24 32 7,837 2,148 2,171 3,783
Alaska .................. 6 11 11 (2) 431 1,252 1,259 (2)
Arizona ................. 27 33 24 28 2,137 4,943 2,369 2,197
Arkansas ................ 8 8 6 7 583 1,039 553 521
California .............. 714 477 345 590 56,138 42,426 31,197 44,939
Colorado ................ 11 20 10 14 832 2,269 1,024 1,237
Connecticut ............. 15 9 10 11 1,487 891 823 968
Delaware ................ 8 8 (2) 7 882 611 (2) 477
District of Columbia .... (2) - 4 (2) (2) - 301 (2)
Florida ................. 182 118 104 123 15,785 9,139 7,027 9,037
Georgia ................. 43 31 39 46 3,809 3,375 4,227 4,398
Hawaii .................. 10 7 4 7 992 672 264 562
Idaho ................... 5 8 6 8 342 533 367 481
Illinois ................ 116 60 56 88 20,576 7,059 6,699 8,046
Indiana ................. 45 32 21 30 4,643 4,786 1,931 2,977
Iowa .................... 33 20 16 13 3,765 2,876 1,984 1,686
Kansas .................. 15 5 15 14 4,071 296 1,464 1,815
Kentucky ................ 49 40 28 15 6,240 6,573 2,758 1,417
Louisiana ............... 26 32 29 26 3,005 2,967 2,646 1,985
Maine ................... 3 8 3 5 280 754 204 320
Maryland ................ 13 6 12 11 1,325 496 816 1,172
Massachusetts ........... 20 20 9 13 1,777 2,202 865 948
Michigan ................ 121 44 24 54 12,218 7,624 2,924 5,047
Minnesota ............... 26 8 11 18 2,318 576 965 1,526
Mississippi ............. 11 5 11 13 895 461 922 768
Missouri ................ 39 28 30 48 5,446 2,393 2,396 3,679
Montana ................. 6 7 4 10 476 528 267 659
Nebraska ................ 3 10 6 6 658 948 593 504
Nevada .................. 18 15 13 24 1,686 1,432 994 2,956
New Hampshire ........... 5 14 3 8 630 1,663 264 1,277
New Jersey .............. 88 69 34 56 14,033 9,700 2,685 9,675
New Mexico .............. 15 8 8 13 1,013 594 673 997
New York ................ 83 114 67 50 7,681 15,919 6,338 5,201
North Carolina .......... 28 13 13 21 2,505 1,438 2,462 2,378
North Dakota ............ 6 (2) 7 - 640 (2) 681 -
Ohio .................... 94 61 47 58 10,818 8,014 3,909 6,056
Oklahoma ................ 11 5 6 6 1,052 608 350 494
Oregon .................. 43 42 18 27 5,525 4,603 1,324 3,758
Pennsylvania ............ 194 133 73 128 18,363 13,254 6,131 11,708
Rhode Island ............ 10 16 4 9 1,377 2,525 265 1,723
South Carolina .......... 38 19 10 31 4,087 3,832 839 3,414
South Dakota ............ (2) - (2) (2) (2) - (2) (2)
Tennessee ............... 19 18 31 13 1,617 1,823 2,580 1,140
Texas ................... 93 73 77 63 8,745 7,116 7,037 6,711
Utah .................... 8 8 8 6 698 889 663 461
Vermont ................. 10 14 - 8 965 1,488 - 767
Virginia ................ 31 15 26 24 2,817 1,489 3,151 1,999
Washington .............. 16 29 11 10 1,231 2,665 882 839
West Virginia ........... 8 4 5 (2) 583 388 297 (2)
Wisconsin ............... 93 93 27 60 11,092 9,965 2,518 7,805
Wyoming ................. - (2) - (2) - (2) - (2)
Puerto Rico ............. 17 19 19 24 1,280 2,252 1,735 1,763
1 See footnote 1, table 3.
2 Data do not meet BLS or state agency disclosure standards.
NOTE: Dash represents zero.
United States Department of Labor
