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Poll: Area residents say they are worse off, lack of jobs a problem

By ROBERTA FUGATE

rjfugate@njherald.com

The unemployment news is not good.

It's not good in the country.

It's not good in the state.

It's not good in Sussex County.

"The job situation is bleak," said Bill Weightman, administrator of the One-Stop Career Center in Franklin. "And we should be scared because this is no ordinary recession."

Statewide, unemployment hit a five-year high -- 6 percent -- after New Jersey employers cut 6,000 jobs from their payrolls ...

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