Florida's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for March 2010 is 12.3 percent. This represents 1,138,000 jobless out of a labor force of 9,269,000. The unemployment rate is up marginally from the February revised rate of 12.2 percent, and up 2.7 percentage points from the March 2009 rate of 9.6 percent.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports South Dakota's preliminary seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for June 2010 was 4.5 percent, down slightly from the May 2010 rate of 4.6 percent.

The nation's employers cut 125,000 workers in June, with much of the decline attributed to the end of nearly a quarter-million temporary jobs for Census workers, and the U.S. unemployment rate declined to 9.5 percent, the U.S. Department of Labor reported Friday.

The underemployment rate edged lower to 16.5% in June from 16.6% in May. The unemployment rate for African Americans inched slightly lower to 15.4% in June from 15.5% in May, according to the Department of Labor.

Job seekers in Rutherford County may have it a little easier this month. Unemployment dipped from 9.5 percent in April to 9.2 percent in May, according to statistics released by the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development.