[Sosfbay-discuss] Unemployment in CA

[Edward]

Unemployment rates can be deceptive, because it only measures the labour defined as the employed (both full- and part-time paid jobs) and unemployed (those without work and who have been actively looking for a job in the past 4 weeks). I am not sure about Detroit, but maybe their unemployment rate is lower because people there have given up looking for a nonexistent job.
-edward


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     The list of the top 379 unemployment metro areas shows a few likely suspects -- Bismarck, Bend, Cheyenne, Amarillo,  Baton Rouge,  Burlington, Portsmouth, Bangor, New Haven, Scranton, Morgantown, Kokomo, La Crosse.

     What's a big surprise to me is that nine California metro areas have a higher unemployment rate than Detroit.  Of the ten areas nationally with highest unemployment, California owns eight:  Fresno, Visalia,    Hanford, Stockton, Modesto, Merced, Yuba City, and  El Centro.


http://www.bls.gov/web/laummtrk.htm




      
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