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Tampa Bay's High Among Metros for Unemployment
Last Modified: Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 12:01 a.m.
Despite a slight drop in its jobless rate to 12 percent, the Tampa Bay area had the fifth-highest unemployment rate among the biggest metro areas in the country in June, according to Labor Department data released Wednesday.
Among 49 metro areas with populations higher than 1 million, Las Vegas had the highest jobless rate for June at 14.5 percent and Washington, D.C., and surrounding suburbs had the lowest at 6.4 percent.
In addition to Las Vegas, Tampa trailed only Riverside-San Bernardino, 14.4 percent; Detroit, 14.3 percent; and Sacramento, 12.4 percent.
Miami came in No. 6 at 11.7 percent. In fact, four of the 11 highest rates were in Florida metros. But it could be worse. A dozen of the 372 metro areas tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics suffered unemployment rates of at least 15 percent. The worst: El Centro, Calif., at a whopping 27.6 percent, down from 28.1 percent the month before.
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