Workforce Investment Area 7

  December 2011:

Over the Month

•    Total nonfarm payroll employment down 700
•    Goods-producing sector down 500
•    Service-providing sector down 200
•    Total unemployment up 800
•    Unemployment rate up six-tenths of a percentage point to 7.6 percent

Over the Year

•    Total nonfarm payroll employment down 100
•    Goods-producing sector down 300
•    Service-providing sector up 200
•    Total unemployment down 1,800
•    Unemployment rate down one and seven-tenths   percentage points from 9.3 percent.