Via USA Today, Moody’s Economy.com predicts that Massachusetts will tie with Kentucky for the seventh-worst job loss in 2009. (Who will supposedly be worse off than us? Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio.) The Bay State is projected to shed 2.8 percent of our jobs, compared with a national loss of 2.0 percent. No state is expected to add jobs, or come as close to breaking even as the District of Columbia (down 0.1 percent).

Construction jobs will disappear the quickest, both nationally and at the state level. But the outlook for leisure and hospitality jobs looks especially bleak in Massachusetts compared with the nation as a whole.

In percentage terms, the biggest increase in the Bay State will be in natural resources and mining (which includes farming and fishing), but that sector employs only about 2,300 people here — compared with 720,000 in our biggest sector, education and health. More notable is our projected gain in the “information” sector, which includes not only publishing and data processing, but also our nascent film industry.

The only sector expected to grow nationally is government, now expected to provide more services to those without jobs.

See below for figures from 14 employment sectors, with 2009 projections for Massachusetts followed by national projections in parentheses.

Construction: down 6.1 percent (down 5.8 percent)

Education and health services: down 0.3 percent (up 0.2 percent)

Financial activities: down 4.1 percent (down 3.1 percent)

Government: no change (up 0.5 percent)

Information: up 0.5 percent (down 1.5 percent)

Leisure and hospitality: down 4.3 percent (down 1.9 percent)

Manufacturing: down 4.4 percent (down 3.9 percent)

Natural resources and mining: up 5.3 percent (down 4.2 percent)

Other services: down 2.1 percent (down 1.4 percent)

Professional and business services: down 5.3 percent (down 3.8 percent)

Retail trade: down 3.2 percent (down 2.5 percent)

Transportation and warehousing: down 4.5 percent (down 2.1 percent)

Utilities: down 3.1 percent (down 2.5 percent)

Wholesale trade: down 2.8 percent (down 1.8 percent)