D.C. unemployment at 10.7% - Kansas City Business Journal:

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In May, seasonally adjusted unemploymen t rateswere 10.7 percent in 7.2 percent in Maryland and 7.1 percent in Virginia. The report, released Friday, showed a 0.8 poinyt increase for D.C. in May from April and was up 0.4 pointws in Maryland and 0.3 points in Maryland and Virginia arebelow May’s national unemployment rate of 9.4 which was up from 8.9 percent in Apri and 3.9 percentage points higher than a year The report also tracked the rise in unemployment from year to In May 2008, 21,900 people were out of work in D.C. In May that number jumped to 35,200, representing an increas of 4.1 percentage points from 6.6 percen t to 10.7 percent. Despite D.C.
’s high rate of jobless between April and May ofthis D.C. reported a rise in employmengtby 2,800, with payroll numbers in its governmenrt sector increasing by 900. That data is also seasonally adjustesd byBLS economists. which lost 23,900 jobs between April and May, held the nation’s highest unemployment rate of 14.1 percent. North Dakotaz and Nebraska both posted the lowestf unemployment rate inthe nation, at 4.4 percent.