Job Market

Unemployment in the state of Colorado increased by 0.2 percentage points in March 2010, but is still way below the U.S. unemployment rate of 9.7%.

The state of Florida added jobs in a month for the first time since November 2007. In February 2010, Florida gained 26,000 non-farm payroll jobs. However, the unemployment rate crept higher.

Job Market News

Texas lost 13,000 jobs in the month of February 2010
Hawaii is set to experience construction job growth of 2.8%
West Virginia expected to lose another double digit number of construction jobs
In February 2010, the number of person working part time due to economic reasons increased by 480,000,