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SPOTLIGHTFEATURED REPORTSFALL FORUM

National Unemployment at 10.2%  

Newspaper for job market

The national unemployment rate rose to 10.2 percent in October, the highest rate since 1983. Though unemployment rates have risen, job losses continued to moderate over the last six months. More


Watch video from the NCSL Symposium for Emerging Leaders meeting held in Chicago, IL. More 
Dateline Washington

Extend REAL ID Deadline
States lawmakers ask the Dept. of Homeland
Security to extend the Dec. 31, 2009
deadline for all states. More

Fall Forum Policy Statements Due Nov. 28
Deadline for proposed policy statements
for Fall Forum is Nov. 28.
Contact Carl Tubbesing,
NCSL’s deputy executive director.
 

State Legislatures
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Magazine coverOctober/November 2009

Breathing Room 
State lawmakers say federal recovery money took some of the sting out of the recession, but there is more pain to come. More

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Upcoming Event

Dec. 9-12, 2009
NCSL Fall Forum and Meeting of the Standing Committees gives legislators, legislative staff and policy experts a chance to partner on the big issues—budget gaps, health care coverage, education affordability and reform, transportation funding, energy costs and many others. More 

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