March 13, 2012 10:13 PM UTC

Colorado's Unemployment Falls Again, Recovers Faster

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• by: Colorado Pols

As the Denver Business Journal’s Mark Harden reports:

Colorado’s unemployment rate dipped again in January for the fifth straight month, to 7.8 percent, the lowest rate in nearly three years, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment reported Tuesday.

Unemployment in the state in January was a full percentage point lower than the rate of 8.8 percent a year earlier — a bigger decline over that period than all but 13 states — and was down 1.5 points from February 2011’s all-time high of 9.3 percent.

The last time unemployment was this low in the state was in March 2009, when the rate was 7.7 percent, according to CDLE archives.

Clearly, those job-killing Democrats are slacking off.