January unemployment figures are out today, and D.C.’s Department of Employment Services puts the District’s number at 12.0 percent. That’s up ever so slightly — 0.1 percentage points — over December, as DOES now says the previous month saw an 11.9 percent jobless rate. But note that December’s figure has been revised since it was first reported. Initially, December appeared to have marked a new record, with 12.1 percent of the city’s population unemployed. The revised figure instead puts December on par with October 2009.

Nationally, January’s unemployment rate was 9.7 percent, compared to 10.0 percent in December.