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Is Connecticut's job market doing better or worse than the rest of the country?

Published October 2, 2026, 01:38 UTC · CT Signal automated data desk
Connecticut's unemployment rate is 5.8% (2026) — the 3rd-highest among the 52 peers (50 states, DC and Puerto Rico).
The data
Monthly series, Connecticut (orange) against the United States average. Source and query below.
Triggered by
PBS NewsHour (fixture) · Job growth cools as unemployment edges up in several states
Provenance · fetched, never written
dataset: https://datacommons.org/data/commons/UnemploymentRate_Person
query: DC v2 observations variable=UnemploymentRate_Person parent=country/USA type=State
published October 2, 2026, 01:38 UTC · data as of 2026-07

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