US DATA: BLS State employment data show total payrolls -79,400 vs
+54k May official overall payrolls. Also says “Regional and state
unemployment rates were little changed in May. Twenty-four states
recorded unemployment rate decreases, 13 states and the District of
Columbia registered rate increases, and 13 states had no rate change,
the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Forty-three states
and the District of Columbia posted unemployment rate decreases from a
year earlier, four states reported increases, and three states had no
change. The national jobless rate was essentially unchanged at 9.1
percent, but was 0.5 percentage point lower than a year earlier.”