The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. March 29, 2010 Unemployment Rate Increases in 27 States ---------------------------------------- In economic news, the unemployment rate increased in twenty-seven states last month. Florida, Nevada, Georgia and North Carolina set record levels of joblessness in February. Fifteen states had unemployment of ten percent or higher. .