Usually a job engine, localities slow US economy

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WASHINGTON (AP) – In a healthy recovery, states and localities produce jobs, expand social services and help fuel the nation's economic growth.

Then there's the 2011 recovery.

The U.S. economy is moving ahead, however fitfully. Yet state and local governments are still stuck in recession. Short of cash, they cut 30,000 jobs in May, the seventh straight month they've shed workers. Rather than add to U.S. economic growth, they're subtracting from it.

And ordinary Americans are feeling it — from reduced services to fewer teachers, police officers and firefighters. ........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110606/ap_on_re_us/us_economy_state_local_cuts

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1. The GOP seems to have won that meme war -- we no longer believe in govt solutions

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