WASHINGTON, July 6 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document from Economics Daily: * * * In May 2023, 17 states had over-the-year jobless rate decreases, 8 states and the District of Columbia had increases, and the remaining 25 states had unemployment rates that were little different than a year earlier. Massachusetts, where the unemployment rate decreased from 3.7 percent in May 2022 to 2.8 percent in May 2023, had the largest over-the  more