“In September, the national unemployment rate fell to 5.9 percent, the lowest it’s been since July 2008. Yet, even as the recovery moves ahead slowly, conditions vary greatly across states and across racial and ethnic groups. In September, state unemployment rates ranged from a high of 7.9 percent in Georgia to a low of 2.8 percent in North Dakota. Nationally, African Americans had the highest unemployment rate, at 11.0 percent, followed by Latinos (6.9 percent), whites (5.1 percent), and Asians (4.3 percent, not seasonally adjusted). State unemployment rates, by race and ethnicity – Following is an overview of state unemployment rates by race and racial gaps in unemployment for the third quarter of 2014. We provide this analysis on a quarterly basis in order to generate a sample size large enough to create reliable estimates of unemployment rates by race at the state level. In the analysis below and in the accompanying interactive map and tables, we only report estimates for states where the sample sizes of these subgroups are large enough to create accurate estimates.”