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States with the best (and worst) job growth

Some states have fared much better than others in reducing their unemployment rates in the past year. Can you guess which boom state was among those that backtracked?

5. Five-way tie (+/-zero percent)

Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff/File
A shoreline view of Grand Aisle, La. in spring 2011. Louisiana is one of five with flat year over year job growth over the past year.

Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Wisconsin all saw their jobless rates at a complete standstill year over year.  Of those, Louisiana鈥檚 6.8 percent unemployment rate was the lowest in May 2013. But that number represents an increase over the past few months and a 0.4 percent increase from April to May of this year. 

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