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Illinois has the largest unemployment rate decline, December 2013 to December 2014
January 30, 2015
From December 2013 to December 2014, thirty states had statistically significant unemployment rate declines; the largest were in Illinois (-2.7 percentage points) and Rhode Island (-2.5 points). The only statistically significant increase occurred in Louisiana (+1.3 percentage points). The remaining 19 states and the District of Columbia had rates that were little different from a year earlier.
Mississippi had the highest unemployment rate among the states in December, 7.2 percent. The District of Columbia had a rate of 7.3 percent. North Dakota again had the lowest jobless rate, 2.8 percent. Nineteen states had unemployment rates significantly lower than the U.S. rate of 5.6 percent. Ten states and the District of Columbia had measurably higher rates, and 21 states had rates that were little different from that of the nation.
These data are from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics program. Data for the most recent month are preliminary and subject to revision. To learn more, see "Regional and State Employment and Unemployment — December 2014" (HTML) (PDF).
United States Department of Labor
