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A Profile Of 10 States With The Highest Unemployment Rates
Governing: While some states have begun to see a sustainable recovery since the recession, others remain stuck in neutral. The Huffington Post posted a look at the 10 states with the highest unemployment (using July 2011 unemployment numbers), trying to gauge what has prevented those states from turning it around.
What Brian Reed of InvestingAnswers found was that some of these states were generally the most susceptible to the housing bubble's burst while others were more dependent on the manufacturing industry, which has struggled to recoup its losses during the recession.
