For release 10:00 a.m. (EDT) Friday, August 20, 2010 USDL-10-1143
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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 -- JULY 2010
Employers took 1,609 mass layoff actions in July that resulted in the separation
of 143,703 workers, seasonally adjusted, as measured by new filings for unem-
ployment 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 July decreased by 38 from the prior month,
and the number of associated initial claims decreased by 1,835. In July, 307 mass
layoff events were reported in the manufacturing sector, seasonally adjusted, re-
sulting in 33,381 initial claims. (See table 1.)
During the 32 months from December 2007 through July 2010, the total number of
mass layoff events (seasonally adjusted) was 63,461, and the associated number
of initial claims was 6,357,583. (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 July 2010, seasonally adjusted,
unchanged from the prior month and essentially unchanged from 9.4 percent a year
earlier. In July, total nonfarm payroll employment decreased by 131,000 over the
month and by 52,000 from a year earlier.
Industry Distribution (Not Seasonally Adjusted)
The number of mass layoff events in July was 2,124 on a not seasonally adjusted
basis; the number of associated initial claims was 206,254. (See table 2.) Over
the year, the number of mass layoff events decreased by 930, and associated ini-
tial claims decreased by 130,400. Fourteen of the 19 major industry sectors in
the private economy reported over-the-year decreases in initial claims, led by
manufacturing, which reached a program low of 64,200 claims for the month of
July. (Data began in 1995.)
The manufacturing sector accounted for 25 percent of all mass layoff events and
31 percent of initial claims filed in July. A year earlier, manufacturing made
up 37 percent of events and 46 percent of initial claims. Within manufacturing,
the number of claimants in July 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.
The six-digit industry with the largest number of initial claims in July was
elementary and secondary schools. (See table A.) Of the 10 detailed industries
in table A, school and employee bus transportation reached a program high num-
ber of claims for the month of July. This table includes both publicly and pri-
vately owned entities.
Table A. Industries with the largest number of mass layoff initial claims in
July 2010, not seasonally adjusted
July peak
Industry
Initial Year Initial
claims claims
Elementary and secondary schools .............. 15,685 2009 20,769
Temporary help services (1) ................... 14,716 1998 24,601
School and employee bus transportation ........ 13,011 2010 13,011
Motion picture and video production ........... 4,957 1998 12,310
Automobile manufacturing ...................... 3,901 1996 22,644
Professional employer organizations (1) ....... 3,866 2009 8,240
Farm labor contractors and crew leaders ....... 3,100 1998 6,142
Discount department stores .................... 3,076 2009 3,995
Executive and legislative offices, combined ... 2,987 2009 3,798
Food service contractors ...................... 2,917 1997 3,016
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 July. Among the census regions, the Mid-
west and West registered the largest over-the-year declines in initial claims.
Of the geographic divisions, the East North Central and the Pacific had the lar-
gest over-the-year declines. (See table 5.)
California recorded the highest number of initial claims in July, followed by
New York, Michigan, and Illinois. Thirty-eight states experienced over-the-
year decreases in initial claims, led by California and Illinois. (See table 6.)
In 2010, Indiana, Kansas, New Hampshire, and Wyoming reached or matched program
lows for July in terms of initial claimants, while New Jersey and New York
reached program highs for the month.
Note
The monthly data series in this release cover mass layoffs of 50 or more work-
ers 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 quar-
terly 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 August is scheduled to be released on Thursday,
September 23, 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, August 2006 to
July 2010, seasonally adjusted
Total Private nonfarm Manufacturing
Date
Initial Initial Initial
Events claimants Events claimants Events claimants
2006
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
July ....................... 1,609 143,703 1,369 121,770 307 33,381
Table 2. Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance, August 2006 to
July 2010, not seasonally adjusted
Total Private nonfarm Manufacturing
Date
Initial Initial Initial
Events claimants Events claimants Events claimants
2006
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
July ....................... 2,124 206,254 1,732 172,248 532 64,200
Table 3. Industry distribution: Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance
Initial claimants for
Mass layoff events unemployment insurance
Industry
July May June July July May June July
2009 2010 2010 2010 2009 2010 2010 2010
Seasonally adjusted
Total ..................................... 2,039 1,412 1,647 1,609 196,578 135,789 145,538 143,703
Total, private nonfarm ........................ 1,818 1,200 1,436 1,369 176,542 119,822 127,928 121,770
Manufacturing ............................... 565 266 298 307 66,918 22,577 29,384 33,381
Not seasonally adjusted
Total (1) ................................. 3,054 1,354 1,861 2,124 336,654 123,333 171,190 206,254
Total, private .................................. 2,752 1,197 1,398 1,832 304,108 110,968 128,691 179,524
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting .. 93 27 43 100 7,519 1,765 2,819 7,276
Total, private nonfarm ........................ 2,659 1,170 1,355 1,732 296,589 109,203 125,872 172,248
Mining ...................................... 22 (2) (2) 5 1,816 (2) (2) 394
Utilities ................................... 3 5 5 6 446 449 343 689
Construction ................................ 170 159 121 135 12,415 12,129 8,405 9,570
Manufacturing ............................... 1,133 216 212 532 154,208 19,334 21,083 64,200
Food .................................... 67 47 46 75 8,076 4,015 3,315 9,535
Beverage and tobacco products ........... 8 5 5 4 624 386 259 290
Textile mills ........................... 21 3 4 8 2,424 391 584 959
Textile product mills ................... 8 3 (2) 3 875 407 (2) 347
Apparel ................................. 26 8 7 18 2,926 498 737 1,576
Leather and allied products ............. 4 - (2) 3 306 - (2) 332
Wood products ........................... 42 11 20 24 3,453 913 2,012 2,051
Paper ................................... 17 3 4 4 1,439 277 382 311
Printing and related support activities . 16 12 12 10 1,950 1,065 878 790
Petroleum and coal products ............. 6 3 - 4 373 205 - 294
Chemicals ............................... 19 8 3 18 1,722 530 375 1,808
Plastics and rubber products ............ 74 6 5 31 9,776 329 353 3,027
Nonmetallic mineral products ............ 29 5 9 22 3,044 342 492 1,846
Primary metals .......................... 89 12 9 24 9,850 1,147 762 2,752
Fabricated metal products ............... 114 12 8 27 10,798 910 621 2,497
Machinery ............................... 132 20 16 26 29,528 1,971 2,329 4,463
Computer and electronic products ........ 77 13 8 18 7,823 1,015 654 1,492
Electrical equipment and appliances ..... 45 11 5 17 5,992 865 734 1,692
Transportation equipment ................ 275 20 34 171 47,322 2,860 4,474 25,863
Furniture and related products .......... 35 5 11 19 3,311 409 1,560 1,916
Miscellaneous manufacturing ............. 29 9 3 6 2,596 799 232 359
Wholesale trade ............................. 78 18 14 33 6,201 1,183 955 2,691
Retail trade ................................ 161 121 107 142 17,388 9,982 10,102 14,907
Transportation and warehousing .............. 131 47 159 148 11,279 4,781 19,790 17,270
Information ................................. 90 41 41 55 13,941 6,310 4,321 7,341
Finance and insurance ....................... 84 23 39 47 6,700 1,761 2,621 3,391
Real estate and rental and leasing .......... 12 9 8 15 819 698 437 883
Professional and technical services ......... 95 61 30 59 10,555 5,534 2,970 4,366
Management of companies and enterprises ..... 14 (2) (2) 5 2,289 (2) (2) 419
Administrative and waste services ........... 351 175 175 292 35,419 17,363 14,283 25,234
Educational services ........................ 31 10 40 30 2,540 766 2,588 2,912
Health care and social assistance ........... 101 84 174 90 7,010 7,337 14,283 6,716
Arts, entertainment, and recreation ......... 38 32 29 31 2,611 2,063 1,764 2,559
Accommodation and food services ............. 124 129 141 89 9,651 16,045 18,121 7,184
Other services, except public administration 19 34 54 18 1,212 2,933 3,284 1,522
Unclassified ................................ 2 - - - 89 - - -
Government ...................................... 302 157 463 292 32,546 12,365 42,499 26,730
Federal ..................................... 10 19 22 25 845 1,864 2,076 3,243
State ....................................... 39 39 37 29 3,297 2,904 2,813 2,589
Local ....................................... 253 99 404 238 28,404 7,597 37,610 20,898
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, July 2008 to July 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
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 (r)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 (r)406,802 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 (r)2,416 (r)468,368 (r)43.7 (r)88.8
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 (r)1,870 (r)360,208 (r)38.3 (r)77.2
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)(p)1,851 (2)(p)273,860 (p)43.8 (p)65.2
July ....................... 2,124 206,254 1,732 172,248
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 suggests 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
July May June July July May June July
2009 2010 2010 2010 2009 2010 2010 2010
United States (1) ... 3,054 1,354 1,861 2,124 336,654 123,333 171,190 206,254
Northeast ................... 511 203 288 434 45,526 17,575 32,587 44,132
New England ............. 82 29 54 40 7,194 2,421 6,003 3,136
Middle Atlantic ......... 429 174 234 394 38,332 15,154 26,584 40,996
South ....................... 725 428 442 512 71,648 38,299 39,969 48,848
South Atlantic .......... 389 216 267 280 34,220 19,282 23,150 26,937
East South Central ...... 213 94 73 142 25,153 8,431 7,108 13,640
West South Central ...... 123 118 102 90 12,275 10,586 9,711 8,271
Midwest ..................... 805 261 390 490 117,188 26,176 39,201 56,377
East North Central ...... 635 175 290 397 94,516 17,981 29,931 46,473
West North Central ...... 170 86 100 93 22,672 8,195 9,270 9,904
West ........................ 1,013 462 741 688 102,292 41,283 59,433 56,897
Mountain ................ 112 73 105 71 11,241 6,357 9,136 6,593
Pacific ................. 901 389 636 617 91,051 34,926 50,297 50,304
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
July May June July July May June July
2009 2010 2010 2010 2009 2010 2010 2010
Total (1) ............ 3,054 1,354 1,861 2,124 336,654 123,333 171,190 206,254
Alabama ................. 75 24 32 57 8,324 2,171 3,783 5,642
Alaska .................. (2) 11 (2) (2) (2) 1,259 (2) (2)
Arizona ................. 35 24 28 16 3,469 2,369 2,197 1,710
Arkansas ................ 11 6 7 8 1,033 553 521 765
California .............. 812 345 590 558 82,085 31,197 44,939 44,343
Colorado ................ 15 10 14 16 1,536 1,024 1,237 1,552
Connecticut ............. 15 10 11 13 1,056 823 968 977
Delaware ................ 5 (2) 7 (2) 347 (2) 477 (2)
District of Columbia .... - 4 (2) (2) - 301 (2) (2)
Florida ................. 192 104 123 137 14,929 7,027 9,037 10,581
Georgia ................. 62 39 46 27 7,636 4,227 4,398 4,020
Hawaii .................. 9 4 7 5 670 264 562 471
Idaho ................... 8 6 8 5 759 367 481 480
Illinois ................ 110 56 88 92 25,119 6,699 8,046 10,969
Indiana ................. 87 21 30 38 10,131 1,931 2,977 5,905
Iowa .................... 48 16 13 25 8,730 1,984 1,686 3,463
Kansas .................. 22 15 14 5 2,088 1,464 1,815 416
Kentucky ................ 97 28 15 50 14,128 2,758 1,417 5,491
Louisiana ............... 21 29 26 23 1,768 2,646 1,985 2,174
Maine ................... 4 3 5 3 256 204 320 249
Maryland ................ 11 12 11 20 987 816 1,172 1,844
Massachusetts ........... 31 9 13 16 2,972 865 948 1,403
Michigan ................ 185 24 54 107 23,929 2,924 5,047 12,383
Minnesota ............... 31 11 18 14 3,229 965 1,526 1,462
Mississippi ............. 14 11 13 12 803 922 768 1,094
Missouri ................ 61 30 48 34 7,647 2,396 3,679 3,005
Montana ................. 5 4 10 4 481 267 659 322
Nebraska ................ 4 6 6 10 418 593 504 835
Nevada .................. 37 13 24 20 3,212 994 2,956 1,644
New Hampshire ........... 17 3 8 (2) 1,564 264 1,277 (2)
New Jersey .............. 101 34 56 113 8,366 2,685 9,675 10,486
New Mexico .............. 5 8 13 4 252 673 997 247
New York ................ 126 67 50 201 11,886 6,338 5,201 23,920
North Carolina .......... 23 13 21 19 1,950 2,462 2,378 1,264
North Dakota ............ 4 7 - 4 560 681 - 666
Ohio .................... 138 47 58 87 19,704 3,909 6,056 9,564
Oklahoma ................ 16 6 6 8 2,013 350 494 665
Oregon .................. 49 18 27 32 5,492 1,324 3,758 3,582
Pennsylvania ............ 202 73 128 80 18,080 6,131 11,708 6,590
Rhode Island ............ 10 4 9 6 965 265 1,723 396
South Carolina .......... 59 10 31 36 5,359 839 3,414 5,430
South Dakota ............ - (2) (2) (2) - (2) (2) (2)
Tennessee ............... 27 31 13 23 1,898 2,580 1,140 1,413
Texas ................... 75 77 63 51 7,461 7,037 6,711 4,667
Utah .................... 7 8 6 6 1,532 663 461 638
Vermont ................. 5 - 8 (2) 381 - 767 (2)
Virginia ................ 35 26 24 36 2,873 3,151 1,999 3,427
Washington .............. 29 11 10 21 2,549 882 839 1,848
West Virginia ........... (2) 5 (2) (2) (2) 297 (2) (2)
Wisconsin ............... 115 27 60 73 15,633 2,518 7,805 7,652
Wyoming ................. - - (2) - - - (2) -
Puerto Rico ............. 22 19 24 18 1,826 1,735 1,763 2,344
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
