This is a JOKE. The unemployment rate far exceeds the rate of the State published unemployment benefit that is paid out! Just means more people are falling off the Benefit roles as they cross over their annual Benefit and become terminated from that. Many longer termed employed saved their $ and are thus living off that or spouses income may be able to cover the gap if the family is frugal... unemployment stats don’t mean anything except the amount that State is shoveling out to cover the insurance.