Unemployment rates rose in majority of US states

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Unemployment rates rose in more than half of U.S. states in June, evidence that slower hiring is affecting many parts of the country.

The Labor Department says the unemployment rates in 28 states and Washington, D.C., increased last month. Rates declined in eight states and were flat in 14. That's a change from May, when 24 states reported falling unemployment rates.

Twenty-six states reported a net gain in jobs in June, while 24 states lost jobs.

The changing trend in state unemployment rates reflects a weaker economy hampered by high gas prices and lower factory output. Nationally, employers added only 18,000 net jobs in June, the second straight month of feeble hiring. The U.S. unemployment rate ticked up to 9.2 percent.

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1. Obama should have been on jobs from day one--jobs are the key to recovery

and the key to erasing the deficit.

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4. +1

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2. How much of that was due to republican governors laying off

government workers?

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3. but if we stop giving the "job creators" tax breaks, they'll stop creating jobs

oh wait, except they havent done that ever

New Plan: tax the fuckers and eat the rich