Statistics are deceiving. I had a statistics teacher that said: "Statistics are like a bikini, what they reveal is interesting, what they conceal is essential." The fact is nationally, unemployment is high, but it is improving in states that are Republican controlled, and getting worse under Democrat control. Keep electing Democrats and employment will crash because of their favoring unions over people that want to work, the Enviro-Nazis over businesses that want to hire people, and killing the golden [filtered word] to feed the ravenous expanding government.