North Dakota posted the lowest jobless rate among all US states in February at 2.0%, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The next lowest rate was in South Dakota at 2.1%.
California posted the highest unemployment rate among all states in February at 5.3%, followed by Nevada at 5.2%.
Three states posted year-over-year decreases in their jobless rates. Massachusetts’ was the largest such decrease, down 0.7 percentage points to 2.9%. Pennsylvania and Wyoming each declined 0.3 percentage point year over year to 3.4% and 2.8%, respectively.
Meanwhile, the largest year-over-year unemployment rate increase occurred in Rhode Island, up 1.1 percentage points to 3.9%.