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'Employment and Unemployment (Non-Seasonally Adjusted)
Bureau of Labor Statistics
The LAUS program (Local Area Unemployment Statistics) is a cooperative Federal-state program that produces monthly and annual estimates of employment, unemployment, and the unemployment rate for over 7,000 geographic areas. The areas include census regions and divisions, states, metropolitan areas, metropolitan divisions, micropolitan areas, combined areas, small labor market areas, counties and county equivalents, cities with a population of 25,000 and over, and all cities and towns in New England regardless of population. The Census Bureau's Current Population Survey (CPS) data are a key input to the LAUS program methodology and have a significant impact on the estimates from the program. Together, the CPS and LAUS program estimates provide a consistent historical time series for employment and unemployment data at the national and state level.