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Bob Taft: Ohio's unemployment rate rose from 4.2% in January 1999, when Taft took office, to 5.7% by July 2002 -- a 35.7% increase versus a 19.1% national increase over the same span, per Bureau of Labor Statistics data cited by Cincinnati CityBeat, which called his ads' jobs claim misleading because it counted only gross job gains.
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- Ohio's unemployment rate rose from 4.2% in January 1999, when Taft took office, to 5.7% by July 2002 -- a 35.7% increase versus a 19.1% national increase over the same span, per Bureau of Labor Statistics data cited by Cincinnati CityBeat, which called his ads' jobs claim misleading because it counted only gross job gains.
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