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MASS LAYOFFS IN JULY 2008
In July, employers took 1,512 mass layoff actions, seasonally adjusted,
as measured by new filings for unemployment insurance benefits during the
month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported
today. Each action involved at least 50 persons from a single employer; the
number of workers involved totaled 151,171, on a seasonally adjusted basis.
The number of mass layoff events this July decreased by 131 from the prior
month, while the number of associated initial claims decreased by 14,526.
In July, 443 mass layoff events were reported in the manufacturing sector,
seasonally adjusted, resulting in 57,470 initial claims. Over the month,
mass layoff events in manufacturing decreased by 98 and initial claims de-
creased by 19,044. (See table 1.)
From January through July 2008, the total number of mass layoff events
(seasonally adjusted), at 10,770, and initial claims (seasonally adjusted),
at 1,100,810, were the highest for the January-July period since 2003.
The national unemployment rate was 5.7 percent in July, seasonally adjusted,
up from 5.5 percent in the prior month and up from 4.6 percent a year earlier.
Total nonfarm payroll employment decreased by 51,000 in July from the previous
month and decreased by 67,000 from a year earlier.
Industry Distribution (Not Seasonally Adjusted)
The number of mass layoff events in July was 1,891 on a not seasonally ad-
justed basis; the number of associated initial claims was 200,382. (See
table 2.) Over the year, there were increases in both the number of layoff
events (+292) and initial claims (+24,963). The largest over-the-year in-
creases in initial claims occurred in transportation equipment manufacturing
(+8,966) and administrative and support services (+5,174). The largest de-
creases occurred in machinery manufacturing (-1,952) and primary metal manu-
facturing (-1,712).
The manufacturing sector accounted for 40 percent of all mass layoff events
and 54 percent of initial claims filed in July; a year earlier, manufacturing
made up 43 percent of the events and 58 percent of initial claims. In July
2008, the number of manufacturing claimants was highest in transportation equip-
ment manufacturing (57,761), followed by fabricated metal products (7,007).
(See table 3.) Administrative and waste services accounted for 14 percent of
mass layoff events and 11 percent of associated initial claims in July, primari-
ly from temporary help services.
The six-digit NAICS industry with the highest number of initial claims was
temporary help services with 14,068, followed by light truck and utility vehicle
manufacturing with 8,825. Among the industries with the highest levels of ini-
tial claims, heavy duty truck manufacturing reached a program high for the month
of July (data are available back to 1995). (See table A.)
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Table A. Industries with the largest number of mass layoff initial claims
in July 2008
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| | July peak
Industry |Initial |---------------------
| claims | |
| | Year |Initial claims
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Temporary help services .......................| 14,068 | 1998 | 24,601
Light truck and utility vehicle manufacturing .| 8,825 | 1997 | 14,618
Motor vehicle metal stamping ..................| 7,033 | 2005 | 8,198
Heavy duty truck manufacturing ................| 6,790 | 2008 | 6,790
Automobile manufacturing ......................| 6,636 | 1996 | 22,644
All other motor vehicle parts manufacturing ...| 5,986 | 2004 | 9,691
School and employee bus transportation ........| 5,156 | 1997 | 8,081
Motor vehicle seating and interior trim | | |
manufacturing ................................| 4,459 | 2005 | 9,238
Elementary and secondary schools ..............| 4,172 | 2005 | 7,104
Professional employer organizations ...........| 3,949 | 2004 | 4,425
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Geographic Distribution (Not Seasonally Adjusted)
Of the 4 census regions, the highest number of initial claims in July due to
mass layoffs was in the Midwest (84,535). The South had the second largest number
of initial claims among the regions with 48,440, followed by the West with 41,901
and the Northeast with 25,506. (See table 5.)
The number of initial claimants in mass layoffs increased over the year in 3 of
the 4 regions--the South (+12,677), the West (+8,837), and the Northeast (+4,471).
Six of the 9 divisions had over-the-year increases in initial claims, with the
largest increase in the Pacific (+9,016).
California recorded the highest number of initial claims filed due to mass lay-
off events in July with 33,250, largely due to layoffs in administrative and support
services and in educational services. (See table 6.) The next highest numbers of
mass layoff initial claims were in Michigan (27,672), Ohio (19,402), and Kentucky
(11,907).
Twenty-nine states reported over-the-year increases in initial claims associated
with mass layoffs, led by Ohio (+8,967), California (+8,196), and Kentucky (+5,949).
States with the largest over-the-year decreases in claims were Michigan (-8,684)
and Kansas and Iowa (-1,563 each).
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The report on Mass Layoffs in August 2008 is scheduled to be released on Tuesday,
September 23.
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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; TDD message referral
phone number: 1-800-877-8339.
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).
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
insurance benefits filed against an employer during a 5-week period,
regardless of duration.
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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 one year and 4 weeks
in another. The effects of these differences could seriously distort the
seasonal 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 2004 to
July 2008, seasonally adjusted
Total Private nonfarm Manufacturing
Date
Initial Initial Initial
Events claimants Events claimants Events claimants
2004
August ..................... 1,426 128,759 1,233 113,809 343 36,539
September .................. 1,285 127,833 1,154 116,843 336 45,690
October .................... 1,283 132,766 1,169 123,471 363 47,046
November ................... 1,320 130,873 1,174 119,029 380 45,416
December ................... 1,148 111,060 991 99,784 287 31,935
2005
January .................... 1,475 160,725 1,346 151,028 382 61,324
February ................... 1,146 121,455 1,020 110,480 353 43,568
March ...................... 1,207 131,271 1,066 120,945 372 53,673
April ...................... 1,252 136,752 1,125 126,550 401 60,681
May ........................ 1,248 136,420 1,104 123,495 398 54,999
June ....................... 1,196 127,084 1,078 118,012 368 58,300
July ....................... 1,250 132,445 1,103 119,566 357 46,602
August ..................... 1,144 125,686 1,000 113,762 341 47,598
September .................. 2,248 297,544 2,028 251,185 417 55,304
October .................... 1,101 110,035 982 100,934 321 43,230
November ................... 1,176 114,965 1,042 103,535 332 42,071
December ................... 1,261 134,461 1,132 123,418 360 46,863
2006
January .................... 1,107 110,800 988 101,494 283 34,037
February ................... 1,031 109,798 940 101,828 322 43,147
March ...................... 1,084 119,049 983 110,668 323 48,119
April ...................... 1,171 121,580 1,043 112,175 368 49,568
May ........................ 1,124 117,115 1,005 107,181 314 43,087
June ....................... 1,146 123,827 1,030 114,080 352 44,869
July ....................... 1,179 121,017 1,051 111,336 372 48,534
August ..................... 1,270 135,400 1,107 124,427 377 60,906
September .................. 1,173 123,767 1,056 114,677 385 45,767
October .................... 1,191 121,827 1,076 113,123 399 53,601
November ................... 1,232 133,803 1,121 124,559 414 58,385
December ................... 1,194 131,062 1,092 121,796 374 51,408
2007
January .................... 1,254 128,223 1,118 117,824 391 52,858
February ................... 1,352 143,837 1,238 135,066 416 61,749
March ...................... 1,277 130,981 1,169 122,488 412 52,606
April ...................... 1,243 126,977 1,116 116,926 382 43,930
May ........................ 1,199 120,587 1,096 113,069 370 48,910
June ....................... 1,238 129,858 1,116 120,165 351 40,670
July ....................... 1,247 127,687 1,140 119,614 392 51,333
August ..................... 1,228 121,886 1,128 114,628 335 36,518
September .................. 1,307 128,487 1,204 121,294 430 53,432
October .................... 1,347 136,124 1,224 127,163 430 57,695
November ................... 1,329 139,671 1,215 131,390 414 56,965
December ................... 1,433 141,750 1,315 133,024 462 58,108
2008
January .................... 1,438 144,111 1,317 134,347 427 55,488
February ................... 1,672 177,374 1,539 166,782 529 66,913
March ...................... 1,571 157,156 1,460 147,537 482 64,088
April ...................... 1,308 133,914 1,186 124,053 483 60,552
May ........................ 1,626 171,387 1,496 161,912 528 72,058
June ....................... 1,643 165,697 1,491 153,568 541 76,514
July ....................... 1,512 151,171 1,368 140,116 443 57,470
Table 2. Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance, August 2004 to
July 2008, not seasonally adjusted
Total Private nonfarm Manufacturing
Date
Initial Initial Initial
Events claimants Events claimants Events claimants
2004
August ..................... 809 69,033 745 63,876 194 17,698
September .................. 708 68,972 637 63,102 189 25,808
October .................... 1,242 127,918 1,101 117,375 372 48,265
November ................... 1,399 130,423 1,201 115,549 412 44,243
December ................... 1,614 161,271 1,487 152,092 436 50,726
2005
January .................... 2,564 263,952 2,421 253,409 823 108,985
February ................... 810 74,644 722 68,372 230 24,931
March ...................... 806 88,937 733 83,793 246 33,030
April ...................... 1,373 158,582 1,263 148,133 395 59,129
May ........................ 986 101,358 891 93,332 249 30,424
June ....................... 1,157 120,463 941 103,307 216 32,783
July ....................... 1,981 244,216 1,745 222,377 856 136,210
August ..................... 645 67,582 598 63,484 188 22,531
September .................. 1,662 213,281 1,505 179,042 318 47,497
October .................... 905 91,941 757 80,694 249 37,276
November ................... 1,254 116,127 1,079 102,182 363 41,442
December ................... 2,323 254,258 2,168 242,753 706 96,382
2006
January .................... 1,245 117,946 1,123 108,701 331 35,097
February ................... 719 66,555 658 62,208 210 24,892
March ...................... 921 111,838 856 106,177 285 44,688
April ...................... 1,140 121,589 1,038 112,964 296 39,538
May ........................ 872 84,809 794 78,663 192 23,570
June ....................... 1,489 164,761 1,224 140,687 319 41,095
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
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
2007 2008 2008 2008 2007 2008 2008 2008
Seasonally adjusted
Total ..................................... 1,247 1,626 1,643 1,512 127,687 171,387 165,697 151,171
Total, private nonfarm ........................ 1,140 1,496 1,491 1,368 119,614 161,912 153,568 140,116
Manufacturing ............................... 392 528 541 443 51,333 72,058 76,514 57,470
Not seasonally adjusted
Total (1) ................................. 1,599 1,552 1,622 1,891 175,419 159,471 166,742 200,382
Total, private .................................. 1,503 1,467 1,363 1,765 168,280 152,510 144,732 191,309
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting .. 53 29 48 78 3,341 2,048 3,816 5,291
Total, private nonfarm ........................ 1,450 1,438 1,315 1,687 164,939 150,462 140,916 186,018
Mining ...................................... (2) 5 (2) (2) (2) 458 (2) (2)
Utilities ................................... (2) 4 (2) (2) (2) 475 (2) (2)
Construction ................................ 88 167 114 72 5,844 12,411 7,713 4,941
Manufacturing ............................... 684 388 309 760 101,390 51,698 42,097 108,733
Food .................................... 46 48 58 49 4,927 4,800 6,065 4,844
Beverage and tobacco products ........... 5 5 (2) (2) 316 273 (2) (2)
Textile mills ........................... 19 6 5 15 2,272 520 730 1,286
Textile product mills (3) ............... 8 8 (2) 5 857 580 (2) 560
Apparel (3) ............................. 19 14 7 24 1,678 1,171 534 2,048
Leather and allied products ............. 7 (2) 3 3 1,212 (2) 862 184
Wood products ........................... 27 24 22 38 2,901 2,455 2,314 4,044
Paper ................................... 4 11 6 10 259 1,091 411 1,239
Printing and related support activities . 5 9 10 12 499 833 1,116 947
Petroleum and coal products ............. - (2) - (2) - (2) - (2)
Chemicals ............................... 8 9 4 13 826 696 228 999
Plastics and rubber products (3) ........ 65 21 8 62 7,487 1,793 960 6,804
Nonmetallic mineral products ............ 10 14 9 16 1,373 1,175 516 1,412
Primary metals .......................... 36 9 12 41 6,318 1,217 1,012 4,606
Fabricated metal products ............... 63 29 19 71 6,364 2,596 1,716 7,007
Machinery (3) ........................... 49 25 22 45 6,994 3,758 2,611 5,042
Computer and electronic products ........ 20 14 13 30 2,549 1,250 1,091 2,498
Electrical equipment and appliances ..... 20 13 8 21 3,271 1,845 2,128 3,052
Transportation equipment (3) ............ 249 101 74 269 48,795 21,667 17,597 57,761
Furniture and related products (3) ...... 14 20 12 18 1,394 3,285 1,076 2,397
Miscellaneous manufacturing (3) ......... 10 5 13 15 1,098 445 909 1,751
Wholesale trade ............................. 18 21 15 22 1,347 1,513 908 1,926
Retail trade ................................ 83 109 89 116 6,663 10,090 10,567 9,450
Transportation and warehousing .............. 90 99 160 107 9,132 11,176 20,647 11,182
Information ................................. 37 56 47 42 4,253 9,251 5,078 4,069
Finance and insurance (3) ................... 39 38 40 55 2,499 2,666 2,968 4,256
Real estate and rental and leasing (3) ...... 7 6 7 11 605 407 798 792
Professional and technical services (3) ..... 45 66 32 40 4,072 6,924 3,903 3,147
Management of companies and enterprises ..... 5 4 4 4 329 383 257 313
Administrative and waste services (3) ....... 216 192 164 259 18,257 16,175 15,635 22,921
Educational services ........................ 7 6 18 18 486 383 1,275 1,388
Health care and social assistance ........... 49 85 151 65 3,911 7,643 11,867 4,263
Arts, entertainment, and recreation ......... 17 32 26 27 1,007 1,993 1,462 2,136
Accommodation and food services ............. 50 122 102 78 3,967 13,212 12,931 5,803
Other services, except public administration 7 38 33 7 578 3,604 2,507 419
Unclassified ................................ 3 - 1 - 218 - 57 -
Government ...................................... 96 85 259 126 7,139 6,961 22,010 9,073
Federal ..................................... 8 16 11 4 925 1,656 928 306
State ....................................... 10 14 12 26 901 867 953 2,179
Local ....................................... 78 55 236 96 5,313 4,438 20,129 6,588
1 Data were reported by all states and the District of Columbia.
2 Data do not meet BLS or state agency disclosure standards.
3 Data beginning in 2008 are not strictly comparable to prior years due to a change in NAICS versions.
NOTE: Dash represents zero.
Table 4. Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance, July 2006 to July 2008, 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
2006
July ....................... 1,511 166,857 1,335 154,342
August ..................... 708 72,844 656 69,054
September .................. 865 87,699 785 81,274
Third Quarter .............. 3,084 327,400 2,776 304,670 929 161,764 33.5 53.1
October .................... 964 98,804 820 88,133
November ................... 1,315 136,186 1,172 125,009
December ................... 2,249 254,503 2,126 244,783
Fourth Quarter ............. 4,528 489,493 4,118 457,925 1,640 (r)330,954 39.8 72.3
2007
January .................... 1,407 134,984 1,263 124,475
February ................... 935 86,696 861 82,097
March ...................... 1,082 123,974 1,015 118,431
First Quarter .............. 3,424 345,654 3,139 325,003 1,110 199,250 35.4 61.3
April ...................... 1,219 127,444 1,115 118,040
May ........................ 923 85,816 856 81,153
June ....................... 1,599 172,810 1,318 148,669
Second Quarter ............. 3,741 386,070 3,289 347,862 1,421 (r)259,234 43.2 74.5
July ....................... 1,599 175,419 1,450 164,939
August ..................... 963 93,458 908 88,345
September .................. 717 67,385 667 64,026
Third Quarter .............. 3,279 336,262 3,025 317,310 (r)1,018 (r)173,077 33.7 (r)54.5
October .................... 1,083 108,455 929 97,716
November ................... 1,799 198,220 1,593 181,184
December ................... 2,167 224,214 2,071 216,898
Fourth Quarter ............. 5,049 530,889 4,593 495,798 1,814 (r)347,146 39.5 (r)70.0
2008
January .................... 1,647 154,503 1,520 144,191
February ................... 1,269 119,508 1,178 113,587
March ...................... 1,089 114,541 1,039 110,147
First Quarter .............. 4,005 388,552 3,737 367,925 (r)1,340 (r)256,697 (r)35.9 (r)69.8
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 (2)(p)1,534 (2)(p)215,808 (p)39.1 (p)52.3
July ....................... 1,891 200,382 1,687 186,018
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.
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
2007 2008 2008 2008 2007 2008 2008 2008
United States (1) ... 1,599 1,552 1,622 1,891 175,419 159,471 166,742 200,382
Northeast ................... 241 266 282 281 21,035 25,619 32,721 25,506
New England ............. 39 32 49 34 3,608 3,218 4,929 2,658
Middle Atlantic ......... 202 234 233 247 17,427 22,401 27,792 22,848
South ....................... 360 402 365 450 35,763 42,832 38,453 48,440
South Atlantic .......... 180 199 207 218 15,861 15,761 18,972 17,556
East South Central ...... 122 116 63 161 14,074 16,810 10,974 21,721
West South Central ...... 58 87 95 71 5,828 10,261 8,507 9,163
Midwest ..................... 573 390 345 606 85,557 45,462 39,391 84,535
East North Central ...... 485 312 257 528 72,514 36,332 28,549 75,373
West North Central ...... 88 78 88 78 13,043 9,130 10,842 9,162
West ........................ 425 494 630 554 33,064 45,558 56,177 41,901
Mountain ................ 44 62 63 49 4,698 5,548 4,903 4,519
Pacific ................. 381 432 567 505 28,366 40,010 51,274 37,382
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
2007 2008 2008 2008 2007 2008 2008 2008
Total (1) ............ 1,599 1,552 1,622 1,891 175,419 159,471 166,742 200,382
Alabama ................. 59 35 13 67 6,510 4,044 2,091 7,072
Alaska .................. - (2) - - - (2) - -
Arizona ................. 10 9 17 15 808 872 1,520 1,422
Arkansas ................ 10 7 6 13 1,133 648 414 1,606
California .............. 351 382 516 460 25,054 34,085 44,754 33,250
Colorado ................ (2) 8 3 4 (2) 930 177 343
Connecticut ............. 5 11 9 6 357 924 758 579
Delaware ................ (2) 3 3 (2) (2) 203 159 (2)
District of Columbia .... (2) (2) 3 - (2) (2) 236 -
Florida ................. 79 125 132 123 5,214 8,841 10,751 7,555
Georgia ................. 50 32 32 39 5,133 3,170 3,304 3,949
Hawaii .................. (2) 11 6 4 (2) 1,118 783 271
Idaho ................... 6 12 9 7 1,395 1,131 684 619
Illinois ................ 53 59 48 56 8,175 8,058 4,767 7,674
Indiana ................. 55 44 40 67 7,836 4,943 4,916 8,787
Iowa .................... 20 12 27 16 3,631 3,033 3,682 2,068
Kansas .................. 14 12 12 8 2,294 893 927 731
Kentucky ................ 43 39 26 63 5,958 8,666 6,706 11,907
Louisiana ............... 9 22 23 10 604 3,101 1,767 1,645
Maine ................... 4 - (2) 5 266 - (2) 359
Maryland ................ 4 4 8 5 455 318 754 443
Massachusetts ........... 20 9 17 16 2,173 946 1,467 1,107
Michigan ................ 211 85 61 212 36,356 8,139 6,323 27,672
Minnesota ............... 10 10 16 12 1,558 1,075 1,506 1,452
Mississippi ............. 8 18 5 13 822 1,682 300 1,330
Missouri ................ 38 35 28 39 3,619 3,298 4,320 3,763
Montana ................. 4 6 4 4 379 437 299 234
Nebraska ................ 3 5 (2) (2) 682 413 (2) (2)
Nevada .................. 15 14 17 15 1,438 1,057 1,323 1,637
New Hampshire ........... 5 5 4 4 391 384 657 426
New Jersey .............. 42 38 60 56 3,176 3,813 9,512 4,110
New Mexico .............. 6 9 8 (2) 392 690 465 (2)
New York ................ 88 95 38 103 8,175 9,613 3,445 10,764
North Carolina .......... 3 9 10 12 219 1,163 1,875 1,128
North Dakota ............ 3 (2) 3 (2) 1,259 (2) 248 (2)
Ohio .................... 86 67 55 117 10,435 7,621 6,678 19,402
Oklahoma ................ 4 3 6 5 307 624 502 575
Oregon .................. 20 24 24 25 2,463 3,449 3,863 2,498
Pennsylvania ............ 72 101 135 88 6,076 8,975 14,835 7,974
Rhode Island ............ 3 3 11 (2) 222 243 1,141 (2)
South Carolina .......... 24 11 12 29 3,094 809 1,139 2,958
South Dakota ............ - (2) - - - (2) - -
Tennessee ............... 12 24 19 18 784 2,418 1,877 1,412
Texas ................... 35 55 60 43 3,784 5,888 5,824 5,337
Utah .................... (2) 4 5 (2) (2) 431 435 (2)
Vermont ................. (2) 4 6 (2) (2) 721 683 (2)
Virginia ................ 15 11 5 9 1,400 904 628 1,475
Washington .............. 8 13 21 16 722 1,211 1,874 1,363
West Virginia ........... (2) 3 (2) - (2) 277 (2) -
Wisconsin ............... 80 57 53 76 9,712 7,571 5,865 11,838
Wyoming ................. - - - - - - - -
Puerto Rico ............ 13 17 13 12 1,221 2,626 1,265 1,227
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
