Economic pain failed to ease in July, analysis shows

Economic pain failed to ease in July, analysis shows

The Associated Press

Updated Sep 7, 2010 10:10PM MDT

Americans? economic struggles persisted in July, largely unchanged from the previous month, according to The Associated Press? analysis of conditions around the country.Nationally, unemployment, foreclosure and bankruptcy rates didn?t budge from June. Yet the economic pain varied among localities, depending on their economic bases. Stress eased in counties and states whose work forces lean toward areas such as agriculture, mining, wholesale trade and finance.By contrast, counties and states wi...

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