Unemployment still above 10% in 27 US metro areas. 11 of the 27 are in California

7/2/2013, "Unemployment Rate Still Above 10% in 27 US Metro Areas," WSJ, Jonathan House
 
"Unemployment fell in May from a year earlier in two-thirds of the nation’s 372 metropolitan areas, but 27 still had jobless rates in excess of 10%, the Labor Department said Tuesday. 

Eleven of these areas were in California, the country’s most-populous state, which continues to grapple with fallout from the housing-market downturn. El Centro, Calif., had one of the nation’s highest unemployment rates, at 22.8%, surpassed by Yuma, Ariz., at 30.8%."...



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