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The 4.8 percentage point increase in the state's unemployment rate last year led the nation, according to new data from the U.S. Department of Labor. Only North Carolina, where unemployment grew by 4 percentage points, and Nevada, where it rose by 3.9 percentage points, came close.

Rhode Island's year-end rate, at 10 percent, was not the worst in the country. That was Michigan's ignominy.

But the Ocean State's economy is by far the most troubled in New England. Connecticut, where 7.1 percent of job seekers cannot find a job, has the region's second-highest jobless rate. It is followed by Maine (7 percent), Massachusetts (6.9 percent), Vermont (6.4 percent) and New Hampshire (4.6 percent).

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