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flecting a bounce back from Superstorm Sandy, which caused job losses in both states in November. New York gained nearly 9,000 construction jobs, while New Jersey added 4,200.
• That's nearly half the 30,000 construction jobs created last month nationwide, the biggest increase in 15 months.
• Still, New Jersey now has the nation's fourth-highest unemployment rate, at 9.6 percent. That's down slightly from the previous month but a half-point higher than a year ago.
• North Dakota reported the nation's lowest unemployment rate, at 3.2 percent. Nebraska had the second-lowest rate, at 3.7 percent, followed by South Dakota at 4.4 percent.
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Some 350 Ellsworth airmen preparing to deploy
• ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, S.D. (AP) -- The U.S. Air Force says about 350 airmen from Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota are preparing to deploy to Southwest Asia.
• Officials say the base also will be sending several B-1 bombers from the 28th Bomb Wing, equipment and supplies to support the military's objectives in the region.
• Since 2007, the wing that flies B-1 bombers has had an average of 560 airmen deployed at any one time.
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Excerpts from recent South Dakota editorials
The Associated Press
• The Daily Republic, Mitchell. Jan. 14, 2013
• SD needs to attract business projects
• Even as we wrote it, we knew that our late-October endorsement of Referred Law 14 was fraught with questions and concerns.
• If passed, the proposal would have created the Large Project Development Fund, to be used to attract large business projects to South Dakota. The fund would have been created by taking 22 percent of contractors' excise tax dollars from the state's general fund. The money has been doled out as seen fit by the South Dakota Board of Economic Development.
• The proposal was shot down by South Dakota voters during the November election. We weren't necessarily surprised, because many people had big concerns (Continued on page 33)
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