Thumbs Up: DOL reports lower joblessness in December from a year ago

Jobless rates were lower in December than a year earlier in 238 of the 372 metropolitan areas, higher in 115, and unchanged in 19. Two hundred areas had over-the-year increases in nonfarm payroll employment, 156 had decreases, and 16 had no change.

 The latest Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment news release

(http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/metro.pdf)

was issued today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.