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The slight delay in the release of the data was due to the recent benchmarking of Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) data for 1996. The 1996 annual unemployment data AND nonagricultural wage and salary employment will be released next month as well.
| STATE | RATE (%) |
| Puerto Rico | 12.6 |
| Alaska | 9.4 |
| West Virginia | 8.3 |
| District of Columbia | 8.1 |
| California | 7.3 |
| New Mexico | 7.1 |
| New York | 6.9 |
| Louisiana | 6.8 |
| Idaho | 6.5 |
| New Jersey | 6.5 |
| Oregon | 6.5 |
| Kentucky | 6.3 |
| Washington | 6.2 |
| Arkansas | 6.0 |
| Connecticut | 5.9 |
| Mississippi | 5.9 |
| Montana | 5.9 |
| Ohio | 5.9 |
| Texas | 5.9 |
| United States | 5.9 |
| Hawaii | 5.8 |
| Rhode Island | 5.8 |
| South Carolina | 5.8 |
| Wyoming | 5.8 |
| Illinois | 5.7 |
| Tennessee | 5.7 |
| Delaware | 5.6 |
| Maine | 5.6 |
| Michigan | 5.5 |
| Pennsylvania | 5.3 |
| Florida | 5.1 |
| Nevada | 5.1 |
| Missouri | 5.0 |
| Vermont | 5.0 |
| Arizona | 4.9 |
| Maryland | 4.8 |
| Massachusetts | 4.8 |
| Kansas | 4.6 |
| Oklahoma | 4.5 |
| Virginia | 4.5 |
| Alabama | 4.4 |
| Georgia | 4.4 |
| Iowa | 4.4 |
| North Carolina | 4.4 |
| Wisconsin | 4.3 |
| Minnesota | 4.2 |
| Colorado | 4.1 |
| North Dakota | 3.9 |
| South Dakota | 3.8 |
| New Hampshire | 3.7 |
| Indiana | 3.5 |
| Utah | 3.3 |
| Nebraska | 3.1 |
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