October 14, 2003

San Jose has nation's second highest urban jobless rate
Posted by tzannos@bostonworks.com">Svetlana Husseini at 1:25 PM -

You thought things are bad in Boston? Check out this article from Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.

Of the nation's 51 metropolitan areas with a 1990 census population of 1 million or more, the Portland-Washington region and San Jose continue to report the highest unemployment rates -- 8.1 and 7.9 percent, respectively, the BLS says. Miami and New York had the next highest rates, at 7.4 percent each.

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