Smug Washingtonians who like to tell themselves that we’re insulated from the worst of the recession thanks to the federal government are eating their words today. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest jobs report today, and it showed a 1.1 point increase in unemployment for D.C. since December 2008. Virginia went up 1.0 points and Maryland 0.8 points (h/t Washington Business Journal). Overall unemployment rates for January were 9.3 percent in D.C., 6.2 percent in Maryland and 6.0 percent in Virginia. At this rate, D.C. could be well over 10 percent unemployment within a few months, the highest it’s been since the early 1980s. You may recall that in December, D.C. CFO Natwar Gandhi predicted the city’s unemployment rate would reach 9.8 percent by 2010. Given where we are now, that estimate appears to have been rather conservative.