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Forty-three states saw their jobless rates increase in December. That’s a change in direction from November when 36 states said their jobless rates decreased. Michigan continues to hold the highest unemployment rate at 14.6 percent. Altogether seventeen states had jobless rates above the national average of 10 percent. North Dakota continues to have the lowest at 4.4 percent. Connecticut, Massachusetts, Tennessee, and West Virginia all saw substantial unemployment increases of .7 percent.