Employment could be looking up...
This is the relative change in state unemployment rates since North Carolina prematurely ended emergency unemployment insurance, at the end of June.
Bonus Graph: Here's a histogram of the December minus July differences:
Here is an update, with Labor Force Participation and Employment-Population Ratio histograms.
One caveat is employment participation: The state's population of working-age adults who are looking for jobs shrank by 111,000 in 2013.
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