both dropping 2.5 percentage points. The map below shows the most recent unemployment rate for every state, according to BLS data.

The latest data available shows that state unemployment rates ranged from a low of 2% to a high of 5.7%. Take a look at how your state’s unemployment rate stacks up. The BLS estimates cities ...

Over the last two decades, since 2003, the unemployment rate has never been lower than 3.5%, which it reached just prior to the pandemic in February 2020. By December 2022, 42 states saw ...