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Patrick’s jobs data differ from US

By Noah Bierman

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 21, 2012

Governor Deval Patrick has made federal employment statistics into a powerful political tool over the last few months, touting the state’s dramatic job growth during his administration. But the numbers used by the administration - that Massachusetts is fifth in the nation in job growth - were revised last week and no longer show the state performing as well as previously thought. New data show that the state has now dropped to number 41 in job creation for 2011.

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