Jobless Rate Jumps in Most States
Unemployment rates rose visibly ÛÓ by more than I percentage pointÛÓin -June in most of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, the Labor Department reported yesterday, but the impact varied widely among jurisdictions.</br></br>While the jobless rate for the District jumped to 7 percent over the month, from (1.2 percent in May, unemployment in Indiana leaped to 1 1.9 percent of the work force, while that for New York fell to 7.1 percent.</br></br>Kxcept. for the District and Hawaii, virtually all states had higher unemployment rates in dune than they did the same month a year ago, the department reported.</br></br>In the District, sharp increases in government, service-industry and finance jobs more than offset employment declines in construction and other industries. The jobless rate here in dune 1979 was 8.2 percent.</br></br>For the Washington metropolitan area, which includes the Maryland and Virginia suburbs, the jobless rate for