"Unemployment Rate falls in 39 states in June" Gee, sounds like such good news, doesn't it? It's an Associated Press headline that's been picked up by most news outlets. But the real truth is in the first paragraph, that frankly most people including Republican lawmakers won't read: "The unemployment rate fell in most states in June, mainly because more people gave up searching for work and were no longer counted."

It goes on to say... Fewer states saw job increases, the latest evidence that the economic recovery is slowing.

The jobless rate declined in 39 states and Washington, D.C. last month, the Labor Department said Tuesday. That's a slight improvement from May, when 37 states saw their rates decline.

But only 21 states saw net job gains in June, the government said. That compared to 41 the previous month and is the fewest this year.