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To: Smiling Bob who wrote (123966)	5/19/2008 1:40:47 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 306849

Pink slips pile up in Florida tampabay.com Michigan may have trounced Florida in football this year, but we just slammed our Rust Belt rivals in a category where they have long held prominence: job losses. For April, Florida led the nation for the largest month-over-month drop in employment levels. From March to April, the state lost 25,300 jobs. Michigan, meanwhile, shed 18,600 positions over the month. "It's certainly not a position we're used to,'' said Rebecca Rust, economist with Florida's Agency for Workforce Innovation. "We've been a leader in job creation for most of the last decade because of the construction boom, which was exacerbated by hurricane recovery. When you're up so high, you have farther to fall."