U.S. Regional and State Employment Report for Nov. (Text)

The following is the text of the U.S. state employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Regional and state unemployment rates were generally little changed in November. Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia recorded un-employment rate increases, 15 states registered rate decreases, and 14 states had no rate change, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia posted unemploy-ment rate decreases from a year earlier, 17 states reported increases, and 5 states had no change. The national jobless rate edged up by 0.2 percentage point between October and November to 9.8 percent, but was little different from a year earlier.