Current Statistics and Articles
Current Labor
Statistics, May 2009
| Unemployment Rate |
|
| Colorado |
7.6% |
| U.S. |
9.4% |
| Colorado Job Growth |
|
| (May. '09 - Apr. '09) |
-5,100 |
| May '08 - May. '09) |
-96,800 |
Colorado’s
seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose two-tenths of one percentage point in
May. When combined with last month’s slight decrease, the two-month change
is the smallest since last summer, according to Donald J. Mares, Executive
Director of the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. The
seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose to 7.6 percent. The current
jobless rate is up 2.9 percentage points from a year ago when it stood at 4.7
percent. “For the past three months the changes in Colorado’s unemployment
rate have been incrementally smaller than those seen nationally,” said Mares.
“Additionally, the decline in wage and salary employment appears to be
moderating both nationally and in Colorado,” Mares noted.
See full report
Colorado job growth slows in 2008...Read article here (pdf)...
State personal income data for 2008 from the
Bureau of Economic Analysis. See report here...
LMI Glossary
The Colorado Business Employment Dynamics (BED) data series
is useful for studying job creation and job loss. Read article
(pdf) here...
 BED 2008 3rd quarter
data here...
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