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Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 12:12pm EDT
20 states boost employment, but not NY
The Business Review (Albany) - by G. Scott Thomas Contributor

The new state-by-state employment numbers released on Tuesday have an optimistic glow.

Twenty states and the District of Columbia have larger workforces now than they did a year ago, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Ten of those states enjoyed increases of more than 10,000 jobs.

New York was not among them. It lost another 4,300 nonfarm jobs between June 2009 and June 2010.

Texas, on the other hand, picked up 87,800 jobs during the past year -- far and away the biggest increase in any state. It was followed by Indiana (up 30,100 since June 2009), North Carolina (up 30,000) and Pennsylvania (up 26,900)........................>>>>...................>>>>..................http://albany.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2010/07/19/daily14.html?surround=lfn