New Jersey has one of the higher unemployment rates in the nation, at 9.4 percent, and the Garden State created no net jobs in 2010, according to Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley
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New Jersey has one of the higher unemployment rates in the nation, at 9.4 percent, and the Garden State created no net jobs in 2010, according to Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley.
Those are pretty strong claims to make, and ones that aren't entirely true, either, according to an investigation by PolitiFact National.
PolitiFact found that New Jersey had either the 15th or 16th highest unemployment rate nationally, depending on whether the District of Columbia is included. That's high, but not in the very top tier of struggling states. Other factors also go into that ranking. Also, Christie would have fared better in terms of job creation statistics if O'Malley had carried out the calculations through August 2011 rather than cherry-picking just the first year of Christie's tenure.
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