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

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.

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

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.

I think I gave them too much credit.

:sarcasm:

O8)

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.)