Jobless rates rose in 27 U.S. states in June
Nevada has the nation's highest unemployment rate, at 11.3 percent, according to U.S. Labor Department data released Friday, July 20, 2012. / CBS
(AP) WASHINGTON - Unemployment rates rose in 27 U.S. states last month, the most in almost a year and a reflection of weaker hiring nationwide.
The Labor Department said Friday that unemployment rates fell in 11 states and Washington, D.C. the fewest since August. Rates were unchanged in 12 states.
Nationwide, employers added only 80,000 jobs last month, the third straight month of weak job growth. The national unemployment rate stayed at 8.2 percent.
Still, 29 states added jobs in June, up from 27 in May. Unemployment rates can rise even if more jobs are created if more of those out of work start looking for jobs. The number of Americans searching for jobs nationwide increased last month.
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Nevada recorded the highest unemployment rate, at 11.6 percent, the same as the previous month. It was followed by Rhode Island at 10.9 percent and California at 10.7 percent
North Dakota had the lowest unemployment rate at 2.9 percent. It followed by Nebraska at 3.8 percent.
Several states reported big increases in unemployment. Rates rose 0.4 percentage points in Alabama and New Jersey, to 7.8 percent and 9.6 percent, respectively.
Some states kept hiring at a healthy pace in June. California added 38,300 jobs and Ohio added 18,400, after similar gains in both states in May. And North Carolina rebounded after losing jobs in May, adding 16,900 jobs last month.
Still others lost jobs. Wisconsin shed 13,200 positions, the most of any state. It was followed by Tennessee, where employers cut 12,100 jobs.
The economy is struggling to generate enough growth to boost hiring and consumer spending from subpar levels.
Job growth slowed to 75,000 a month from April through June, down from healthy 226,000 pace in the first three months of the year. Unemployment is stuck at 8.2 percent.
On Wednesday, a survey by the Fed said hiring was "tepid" in most of its districts in June and early July. And manufacturing weakened in most regions.
Retail sales fell in June for the third straight month, the government said this week. That led many economists to downgrade their estimates for growth in the April-June quarter. Many think it will be even slower than the first quarter's scant 1.9 percent annual pace.
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Make up your mind, you on the right claim government doesn't create jobs, so since Obama is in charge of the government it's not his responsabilty.
Bush was arrogant and incompetent, a really bad combination. He could not form two coherent sentences without gaffing and slurring his words. He was a total embarrassment to us all over the world.
President Obama is smart, articulate and thinks clearly.
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LMAO!!! sjc, serial killers are smart, articulate (generally) and think very clearly. You'll have to come up with something better than that.
Yet your boy mitt and his company bain love shipping jobs to china.
You can whine that wall street caused it because of greed, but you give a pass to the poor and middle class. Poor and middle class are just as greedy as the rich. The only difference is the rich know how to make money. Look how many people think they are worth more than they are paid. Tt's a fact that employers are looking for the best worker for the lowest wage. That's not greed, that business. The sooner people realize it and start living withing their means, the better off this country will be.
keep blaming Bush for everything
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Well......yea!
To all I say....Good day!
The Republicans do not care about the Nation, they care of only the party.
Really Raptor? It's us, the REAL Americans (Republicans) that care about GOD and country, the libs are the ones trying to destroy it with the whole abortion, promotion of gays (it's really just a mental disease) and of course, obummer the god of the libs, the one that has put us in more than 5 TRILLION in additional national debt, the one that can't seem to create a valid job, the one who hides the fast and the furious and lastly, the one who chose joe the "f" bomb" biden. Enough said.
Romney 2012: Count on it!
To you I say.....Good Day!