March 1, 2000 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Iowa reports lowest unemployment rate in 1999
With an average
unemployment rate of 2.5 percent, Iowa reported the lowest unemployment
rate in the nation in 1999, followed by New Hampshire at 2.7 percent.
![States with the lowest unemployment rates in 1999](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120925071244im_/http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/2000/Feb/wk5/art03.gif) [Chart data—TXT]
Other states with unemployment rates below 3.0 percent included
Minnesota and Virginia at 2.8 percent, and Colorado, Nebraska and South
Dakota with unemployment rates of 2.9 percent each. Nine of the 17 states
with jobless rates below 3.5 percent were in the Midwest.
Overall, 26 states had unemployment rates below the national average,
while 24 states and the District of Columbia posted higher rates—the
most even distribution in 12 years.
These data are a product of the Local
Area Unemployment Statistics
program. To learn more, see State
and Regional Unemployment, 1999 Annual Averages
(USDL 00-56).
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