America's unemployment rate has been bad for some time. The latest numbers put national unemployment rate at 9.6%. Now, the Obama Administration is set to finalize more job-killing regulations through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We've broken down the job loss and cost to be incurred when these regulations go live. A sample of that information is below but you can find the list in full here.
State | Current Unemployment Rate | Current Number of Unemployed Job-Seekers | New Jobs Lost to Ozone Rule | |
Alabama | 9.2 percent | 192,825 | 75,918 | |
Alaska | 7.7 percent | 28,000 | 87,794 | |
Arizona | 9.7 percent | 309,020 | 22,396 | |
Arkansas | 7.5 percent | 100,966 | 44,369 | |
California | 12.4 percent | 2,261,451 | 846,108 |