Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment (Monthly) News

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The latest Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment news release
(http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/metro.pdf)
was issued today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Highlights are below.
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Jobless rates were lower in December than a year earlier in 238 of the 372 metropolitan
areas, higher in 115, and unchanged in 19. Two hundred areas had over-the-year increases in
nonfarm payroll employment, 156 had decreases, and 16 had no change.