Unemployment rates in major metropolitan cities

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GOOD has this great infographic of jobless rates in major US cities, comparing unemployment numbers in 2008 with unemployment numbers in 2009. As one would assume based upon the state of the economy in the US, unemployment rates are pretty high in major cities. It’s interesting though to see that unemployment isn’t hitting the middle US as hard. I wonder why.

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  1. Matt says:

    I thought I heard Detroit’s is now at 15.7. Not looking too good.

  2. lovesfool says:

    awesome post. I RTed

  3. Mike says:

    Hmmm. Now if you overlay a map of political party in power…

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