N Dakota, Alaska lead US job creation, study says | Reuters : "* Forty states have fewer jobs now than five years ago * Bottom-ranking Nevada topped the jobs list in 2005 By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK, July 26 (Reuters) - North Dakota and Alaska have added the most jobs, while Nevada, California and Florida have lost the most, in the last five years, according to research released on Monday." [...] North Dakota and other states that added jobs did not undergo the economic volatility of recent years as much as other states, said G. Scott Thomas, a Portfolio.com demographer. "There was no real estate boom or bubble and, as a result, they kept plodding along," Thomas said. "Now those numbers look fantastic." Nevada ranked at the bottom of the list, having lost 113,000 jobs in the last five years, followed by California and Florida, it said. That marked a dramatic change in fortunes for Nevada and Florida, which finished first and second in jobs in a similar 20...
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