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The unemployment level in the United States in February was less than 5%. Alaska and five other states lagged well behind that.
Thursday's economic report barrage included the U.S. Department of Labor's weekly jobless claims.
The unemployment rate in the United States 4.8% in December. Five cities had unemployment rates much higher than, each well above 11%.
Last week's jobless claims fell to 259,000. Bloomberg had the consensus estimate pegged higher at 272,000. We haven't seen claims this low since last October.
The dying city of Flint, Mich., has a 4.6% unemployment, which is rate below the national rate, but the data mask crippling problems.
If you just read the headline data from the Texas Workforce Commission on January's job trends, you would think it's still great news.
Nonfarm payrolls rose by some 242,000 in the month of February, more than expected by Bloomberg or Dow Jones.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that weekly jobless claims were 278,000 last week, more than the Bloomberg consensus estimate.
TrimTabs estimated that the United States added 55,000 to 85,000 jobs in February, the lowest level since July of 2013.
ADP said that total private sector employment rose by 214,000 in February. That was handily higher than the consensus estimate from Bloomberg.
The jobless rate in West Virginia for 2015 was 6.7%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
While it is likely to go much higher this year because of the collapse of the oil industry, North Dakota boasted the lowest 2015 unemployment rate in the United States.
The U.S. Department of Labor reported that weekly jobless claims were at 272,000 in the week ending February 20. Its report from a week ago was 262,000. The consensus estimate from both Bloomberg and...
While the jobless rate in the United States has dropped to less than 5%, it is more than 12% in Puerto Rico, which is worse than it was in America at the depths of the Great Recession.
The U.S. Department of Labor has reported an unexpected drop in its reading on weekly jobless claims for the week ending February 13.