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Key States Suffer from Joblessness and Low Pay
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"Several states that played a critical role in the last presidential election are trailing the national job recovery and could languish for some time to come.  The laggards include seven of the 14 most tightly contested states in the very tight 2000 presidential election: Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee and Wisconsin.   ...
The pace of job losses in these states has been running as high as five times the national average."
-- Peronet Despeignes, USA Today

USA TODAY 
Posted 12/2/2003 3:28 AM
 
Economic news isn't so bright in key states
By Peronet Despeignes
 
To read the complete article, click on- http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-12-02-weak-job-markets_x.htm  [This link was found on the USA Today website through a Google search on 3/23/04]
 
When unexpectedly good job numbers suggested the long U.S. economic slump was finally over, it looked as if Democrats would lose one of the weapons they had planned to use to unseat President Bush next year. But persistently weak job markets in a handful of crucial states still pose a serious threat to Republicans. ...

Contributing: Wire reports
 
© Copyright 2004 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc.
 
 

 
Detroit News
 
Weary factory workers hear Bush tout jobs
After fund-raiser, president visits auto supply company, boasts of strengthening economy
 
By Ron French and Charlie Cain 
 
To read the complete article, click on-- http://www.detnews.com/2003/politics/0312/04/a01-339960.htm  [This link was found on the Detroit News website through a Google search on 3/22/04]
 
Excerpt--
 
CANTON TOWNSHIP -- In two years, Sam Donke lost two jobs in the auto supply industry and found a third, taking a 30 percent pay cut.
 
On Monday, the 47-year-old Westland man sat on a makeshift stage nearly bumping knees with George W. Bush, as the president of the United States touted his economic policies to a blue-collar crowd.
 
Whether Bush keeps his job may be determined by people like Donke who have lost theirs -- a fact Bush confronted at a Canton Township auto supply factory. ...
 
Bush's support is declining among Michigan voters, according to the latest Michigan Poll conducted in mid-October. In that poll, 47 percent gave Bush a favorable rating, compared to 52 percent in a similar poll in September. ...
 
The Associated Press and Bloomberg News Service contributed to this report.
 
Copyright © 2003  The Detroit News.

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