MD unemployment down in 2011

Unemployment in Maryland declined in 2011 for the first time in three years, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report released today.

Source: Local Area Unemployment Statistics, BLS

The number of unemployed Marylanders also fell last year.  From a peak of 239,441 in 2010 the number of unemployed Marylanders fell by 22,930, or 9.6 percent.  Yet there are still more than twice as many unemployed residents as there were in 2007, before the Great Recession.

Source: Local Area Unemployment Statistics, BLS

State employment figures for January 2012 will be released March 13^th.