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Meet 20 companies that made both the Fortune 500 and Best Companies to Work For lists this year.
Michigan has seen a drop in the unemployment rate since Obama took office, but states like Nevada have seen an uptick.

Unemployment rate falls as workers drop out of the labor force.

The labor market has been on a roller coaster this year, with job growth starting off strong in the first couple of months of 2012. Then a disappointing slowdown in March led many to wonder whether the recovery was taking a turn for the worse. April's weak growth compounded those fears.
Walker County Georgia has unemployment under 8%, while in next door Dalton, unemployment is still over 12%.

365,000 people filed for their first week of jobless benefits last week, a significant drop from the week before.

It's true that the unemployment rate is falling. But that doesn't include the millions of nonworking Americans who aren't even looking for a job.

Private companies added fewer jobs last month compared to the month before, according to payroll-processing company ADP.

The middle class may be starting to heal from a decades long decline, President Obama's chief economic adviser Alan Krueger said Thursday.