The Labor Department has put out state-by-state unemployment figures, and the Pacific has become the leading geographical division for job losses with 10.8 percent. Oregon had the highest year over year increase in unemployment, with a rise of 6.6 percent. North Carolina had the highest monthly increase, as the state shed 41,300 jobs and unemployment rose 1 percent in March. Only North Dakota and Washington, DC had unemployment rates that decreased from February to March. You can read the Bureau of Labor Statistics employment report here . I wrote about Oregon's unemployment problem earlier this week. Today I'm in Seattle, where the statistics aren't quite as bad, but there is plenty of discussion (and hand wringing) over jobs. Washington's unemployment rate went up 0.9 percent in March, and more layoffs are looming. Boeing , which moved its headquarters to Chicago a few years back but continues to be one of the Northwest's largest employers, announced earlier this week that it will cut 6 percent of its workforce. That amounts to 10,000 jobs across the company. About half of those jobs will be in Washington, according to the Seattle Times . Boeing had grown jobs in the state from 2004 through 2008, but the latest round of cuts means the company has shed roughly a third of its Washington work force in the last decade (see the chart at right from the Seattle Times. And noone in this city thinks that won't have a significant impact on the Seattle economy for at least the rest of 2009.