Claim: "While the United States has seen its unemployment rate steadily decline, New Jersey's remains nearly two percent higher than the national average and more than a point higher than Connecticut and New York."
Fact-check: Barbara Buono claims New Jersey unemployment ranks higher than national average, 2 other states
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Caryn Shinske
Date published: 2013-03-28T00:00:00