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I find that interesting. to look up at the screen, 8.1% in april was your state unemployment rate, a little above the national average. some of your republican colleagues who are governors trying something else, 23 republican-led states are ending the extra unemployment benefits awarded during covid. good idea or bad idea? we re not going to do that. look, they end by themselves in three months, which i think is probably appropriate. right now we re trying to gently get people back into the work force, i think the thousand dollar incentive will make a big difference over the course of the next six weeks and you ll see those $300 probably disappear in september. and another concern at the moment is, you know, the president passed the big rescue plan. now he has other plans trying to get through to congress. most democrats are on board. a lot of that money would go to states like yours, to help state and local governments, infrastructure projects, some through economic development pr ....
The romney campaign, though, making their argument that they ve been doing over the last several months that things could be much better with his policies. so, really, that s going to be the closing arguments that we re going to hear over the next couple of weeks, alex. you make a point. you say if you can tell that story. because are states unemployment rates more important to voters than national numbers? i mean, in certain states, do they are they more aware of them than others? that s a great question. in the political scientists who have actually looked into this think that the national unemployment rate is more significant than state unemployment rate. that what people are feeling is something national, not necessarily oh, my goodness the unemployment rate is at 5% in iowa, i m so much better off than my neighbor or my friend who might be living in florida, where the unemployment rate is near 9%. so there is more kind of a, according to political scientists, more of a natio ....
Which is conducive to a viral effect. it s fascinating. patricia, thanks so much for coming in. thank you. well, just a short time ago we got a new state by state snapshot of the job market. courtney reg sentence here with what s moving your money. the headline is while the national unemployment rate is 8.5% in december, which is lower than what we had seen, that state by state unemployment rate really varies quite widely and it fluctuates quite often. i mean, overall unemployment rates did fall in 37 states and washington, d.c., for the month of december. south dakota racks up the biggest percentage increase in employment followed by its neighbor up north, north dakota. ten states saw no change in unemployment rates from november to december. and, unfortunately, three states saw the unemployment rate increase in december from november, but by the numbers nevada saw the largest percentage decline in employment followed by alaska. so the good news is that 46 ....
Whether the unemployment rate, the most widely watched measure of jobs, dropped just as election year arrived but will rise as the voting gets closer. jon? jon: political dynamite still ahead or so it would seem. jim gang gel, thanks. reporter: you bet. jenna: a week from now, comes south carolina whose state unemployment rate is hovering at or near 10% for two years. that is something to keep in mind. the first in the south primary could be a deal breaker for some candidates. no republican since 1908 won the nomination without winning south carolina. the latest real clear politics average of polls for south carolina has mitt romney with a 10 point lead over rick santorum and newt gingrich. so that is what it looks like now. again we have more than a week before they hit the voting group. we have political reporter for the state newspaper and we re glad to have her back with us. hi, gina. how are you. jenna: i was reading articles in your newspaper. one of your colleagues said so ....