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Title: State Jobless Rates Show Broad Improvement * *Date: Dec. 21, 2012

*Source: *Wall Street Journal Author: Neil Shah

*Summary: * Unemployment fell across most of the U.S. in November, though Superstorm Sandy, which hit the Northeast in late October, sliced tens of thousands of jobs in New York and New Jersey, the *Labor Department* said Friday.

*Link: *http://on.wsj.com/VUGfnW