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According to the U.S. Census Bureau (see the Related Link below) the unemployment rate in 2000 was 5.8%
As of February 2010, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics the unemployment rate in South Dakota is 5.5% of the labor force.
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1. Employed, Unemployed and not in the labor force. The BLS computes de labor force as the sum of the employed and the unemployed. The BLS computes the unemployment rate for the entire adult population and for more defined groups such as blacks, whites, men, women, and so on. The BLS uses the same survey to produce data on labor-force participation.
The unemployment rate in Maryland is 6.5% in April 2013. It is higher than that of Virginia, 5.2% and lower than that of Washington DC, 8.5%. The unemployment rate of Maryland has dropped slightly since 2010.
As of July 8, 2009, the national unemployment rate in the US was 9.7%. For current information, you can easily access reports from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics by using Google's public data search. The above statistic was found at www.google.com with the query "unemployment rate USA". You can also specify by state and county.
In January 2012, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, America was slowly coming out of the great recession. Unemployment was at 8.3%. But a year later, in January 2013, the unemployment rate had fallen to 7.9 percent, and continued to decline; by January 2014, it was at 6.6%.
What is the national unemployment rate
The Bureau of Labor Statistics collects, analyzes and reports unemployment statistics every month in the Jobs Report. They are the premier research arm of the Department of Labor.