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Trailing California in over-the-month job losses were: Texas, which saw 39,500 jobs vanish; Michigan, which lost 38,400 jobs; and Ohio, where payrolls fell 25,200, according to a U.S. Labor Department report issued Friday.
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California leads nation in job losses - Stocks & economy- msnbc.com
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Nearly 6.7 million people nationwide are drawing state unemployment insurance, the highest on records dating to 1967, the federal government reported Thursday. The crush has exhausted unemployment funds in California, New York and elsewhere, forcing them to tap the federal government for money to keep paying benefits.
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With all of this unemployment going around like a bad cold across the nation, I've found myself contracting out of state more often than not just to get the mortgage paid.
If you were able, and in the industry of construction, would you ever be willing to travel half way across the country to do the job that you could have done at home just a few short years ago?
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