R00k wrote:Damn, and unemployment at 21%? That's scary as hell. Has anybody checked to see if it's true?
we probably all bleed IQ points with every response to a Geoff post, but this was the only valid source i could find...
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/metro.nr0.htm
"Of the 49 metropolitan areas with a Census 2000 population of 1
million or more, Detroit-Warren-Livonia, Mich., and Riverside-San
Bernardino-Ontario, Calif., again reported the highest unemployment
rates in December, 10.6 and 10.1 percent, respectively. Twenty ad-
ditional large areas posted rates of 7.0 percent or more. The large
areas with the lowest jobless rates in December were Oklahoma City,
Okla., and Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, D.C.-Va.-Md.-W.Va., 4.6
and 4.7 percent, respectively. All 49 large areas registered higher
unemployment rates than in December 2007. Providence-Fall River-
Warwick, R.I.-Mass., had the largest jobless rate increase from a
year earlier (+4.3 percentage points), followed closely by Charlotte-
Gastonia-Concord, N.C.-S.C. (+4.1 points). Nine additional large
areas recorded over-the-year unemployment rate increases of 3.0 per-
centage points or more, and 22 other areas had rate increases of at
least 2.0 points."