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Unemployment is a serious matter.
Amid great concern about the state of the U.S. economy, the January 2001 unemployment data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics were jumped on as evidence of a recession in the making. Some economists dismissed this increase because they expect a change of at least 300,000 in number of persons unemployed once every 10 months. Marcus decided to look at what happened at individual states and see how local economic conditions can tell a clearer story. He and his colleagues at the center, based in IU's Kelley School of Business, closely examined official unemployment data for each state from last year. They identified nine states with two straight quarters of rising unemployment over the latter half of 2000 as being in recession.