Unemployment falls in 39 states in April; jobs added in 42

[steve2470]

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2011-05-20-state-unemployment_n.htm

WASHINGTON — The unemployment rate fell last month in more than three-quarters of nation's states.

The Labor Department said Friday that the unemployment rate dropped in 39 states in April from a month earlier. That's an improvement from March when 34 states had reported decreases. The rate rose in three states and the District of Columbia. It was unchanged in eight states.

Employers added workers in 42 states. Only eight states and the District of Columbia lost jobs last month.

Nationally, businesses have added more than 250,000 jobs per month, on average, in the past three months. It's the fastest hiring spree in five years. The unemployment rate has dropped nearly a full percentage point since November. Still, it remains very high at 9 percent.

[DCBob]

1. The only thing to stop the recovery now is the Republicans refusing to raise the debt limit..

I suspect many of them are comtemplating that weighing the political gains versus the pain it will cause the country and the world. Bastards.

[TacticalPeek]

2. I see it differently.

I think they are weighing the political pain it would cause them versus the political pain it would cause the Ds - the country and the world be damned.

[DCBob]

3. yes, you may be right..

I think I gave them too much credit.

[Keith Bee]

4. God Bless Boehner & Ryan!

:sarcasm:

[bigwillq]

9. But you bet they'll take credit for it (nt)

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. It's dropped a couple of points here in IL. K&R nt

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. Sorry hit unrec by mistake. Duuuhh!!! nt

[AndiMer]

10. I put it back up for you

O8)

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

11. Thx.

[ProSense]

7. Krugman

Making Things in America

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America’s industrial heartland is now leading the economic recovery. In August 2009, Michigan had an unemployment rate of 14.1 percent, the highest in the nation. Today, that rate is down to 10.3 percent, still above the national average, but nonetheless a huge improvement.

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[lonestarlib]

8. How do the new repug laws cutting off benefits

figure into this drop?
(I have the slowest dial-up connection in the world, so I'm not always able to follow links in timely manner.)