Unemployment rate drops 1.3%, number of unemployed falls People who lost their jobs wait in line to file for unemployment following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease, at an Arkansas Workforce Center in Fayetteville, Ark., on April 6, 2020.Nick Oxford / Reuters file Preliminary data for December 2020 released today by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics shows that the number of seasonally adjusted unemployed individuals dropped from the November 2020 figure. Posted: Jan 26, 2021 11:01 AM Posted By: Olivia Sanders BATON ROUGE – Preliminary data for December 2020 released today by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) shows that the number of seasonally adjusted unemployed individuals was 151,160, a drop of 26,871 from the November 2020 figure of 178,031. The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate also declined over the month by 1.3 percentage points to 7.2%. This is the lowest seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for the state since March 2020.