Workforce Investment Area 5

January 2010:

Over the Month:

•    Total nonfarm payroll employment down 1,800
•    Goods-producing down 100
•    Service-providing sector down 1,600
•    Total unemployment up 1,700
•    Unemployment rate up two and one-half percentage points to 13.3 percent

Over the Year

•    Total nonfarm payroll employment down 200
•    Goods-producing sector down 200
•    Service-providing sector down 100
•    Total unemployment up 2,900
•    Unemployment rate up four and one-half percentage points from 8.8 percent