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Despite high jobless rate, five states on job-growth spurt

1. Indiana – 55,400 jobs

Joe Harpring/The Republic/AP/File
Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman joins company and local officials in a July announcement that enginemaker Cummins Inc. would spend $100 million to expand a southern Indiana factory and hire 200 people in manufacturing and engineering jobs over the next five years. Indiana ranks No. 1 in terms of jobs created relative to its size.

  • By Laurent Belsie Staff writer

The Hoosier state is America's No. 1 job-creator, helped by the strong rebound in manufacturing. If Indiana was California-sized, it would have created 273,000 jobs – nearly a quarter of all the jobs the US has created in the past seven months. For a full-blown recovery in the national labor market, other states will have to step up the pace in job growth.

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