Metro jobless rates stay high

The good news is that there was little change in the May numbers. Bad news is that the numbers remain crazy high: Eleven of the 13 metro areas in the U.S. with jobless rates of at least 15 percent were in California. The L.A. area (which includes OC) was at 11.4 percent, up a touch from the previous month. (This is a different measurement than for L.A. County, which stood at 12.3 percent in May.) El Centro and Yuma, AZ had the highest rates of any metro area in the country, at 27.5 percent. On the plus side, there were sizable month-to-month drops in SF and San Jose. Here's the BLS release.

--Bakersfield-Delano....................15.7%
--Chico.................................13.3%
--El Centro.............................27.5%
--Fresno................................ 15.9%
--Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana......11.4%
--Modesto...............................17.3%
--Napa..................................9.0%
--Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura..........10.2%
--Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario......13.9%
--Sacramento--Arden-Arcade--Roseville...12.0%
--San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos.........10.0%
--San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont.........10.1%
--San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara........11.2
--San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles........... 9.5%
--Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta......8.3%
--Stockton..............................16.2%
--Yuba City.............................19.3%


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