ARIZONA
Percent Unemployed Getting Benefits: 17% (tied-fourth lowest)
Percent Average Weekly Wage Covered: 25.3% (third lowest)
Unemployment Rate: 6.9% (tied-ninth highest)
Black Unemployment Rate (2013): 15.3%
Unemployed Arizona residents received an average of $221 in benefits. That’s only 25.3% of their average weekly wage, less than in all but two other states.
Only 17% of the unemployed received benefits in the 12 months through the first quarter of the year. The state’s underemployment rate during that time was 16.1%, third worst nationwide behind only California and Nevada.