Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 18, 2015. Regional and state unemployment rates were little changed in August. Twenty-nine states had unemployment rate decreases from July, 10 states had increases, and 11 states and the District of Columbia had no change, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Forty-one states and the District of Columbia had unemployment rate decreases from a year earlier, seven states had increases, and two states had no change. The national jobless rate edged down from July to 5.1 percent and was 1.0 percentage point lower than in August 2014.
