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Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty

State Unemployment Rates

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Unemployment rates rose in half of US states last month, By Christopher S. Rugaber, June 19, 2015, Seattle Post-Intelligencer: “Unemployment rates rose in 25 U.S. states last month, driven higher in many cases by more people who began looking for work but didn’t immediately find jobs. Rates fell in 9 states and Washington, D.C., and were unchanged in 16 states, the Labor Department said Friday…”