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Alabama’s preliminary unemployment rate for
January 2013 is 6.9 percent, marking the second month the state’s unemployment
rate is below 7% when factoring in revised figures from December.
January’s rate represents 148,724 unemployed persons, compared to 145,613 in December and 158,040 in January 2012.
The rate is up slightly from December 2012’s revised rate of 6.8%.
December 2012’s preliminary rate was originally announced as 7.1%. January
2012’s revised rate was 7.3%.
Additionally, revisions conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a division
of the U.S. Department of Labor, indicate that 10 months of 2012 actually had
lower unemployment rates than were initially reported. August and October
2012 both saw decreases of a full percentage point. The preliminary rate
for August was 8.5%, which was revised to 7.5%, and October’s preliminary rate
was 8.1%, which was revised to 7.1%.
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