(Undated) -- The state's unemployment rate ticked up last month compared to July's figures, and joblessness across central Pennsylvania is up as well, but still lower than the rest state. The August unemployment numbers stand at 8.2 percent, up from 7.8 percent in July. The figure released by the Department of Labor and Industry represents a 0.4 percent drop from August 2010 and bests the national joblessness rate of 9.1 percent. Analysts say higher unemployment numbers in the midstate are due to layoffs in the government and last month's strike by local Verizon workers. Schuylkill County had the highest unemployment rate in the region at 10 percent -- up half a percent from the previous month. The Harrisburg-Carlisle and Lebanon Metropolitain Statistical Areas saw joblessness rise by half a percentage point. The York-Hanover, Reading and Chamberburg areas saw increases of three-tenths of a percent. Juniata County's unemployment rate jumped seven-tenths of a percent to 7.7 percent, the biggest increase in the midstate. Lancaster's unemployment numbers rose as well, from 6.9 percent to 7.3 percent. Analysts blamed the boost on the lockout at Armstrong World Industries. Chambersburg and Gettysburg saw their joblessness rates inch up by three- and four-tenths of a percent respectively.