The above chart updates a previous chart by adding BLS data from December of 2011. This allows observation of a possible trend in unemployment on a state by state basis, from the peak of the Great Recession, to January 2011, to December of 2011. During this period the national unemployed rate decreased from a peak of 10.1% in October of 2009 to the current January 2012 value of 8.3%.
North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska continue to lead the nation with the lowest unemployment rate, about 4%, having also improved slightly over the course of 3 years since 2009. Michigan shows the greatest improvement, going from about 14% to about 7% in 3 years. Idaho, Illinois, Washington DC, Missouri, and Montana show signs of retrograde progress, showing somewhat worse unemployment in December of 2011 than in January of 2011.
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