July 2003 ·
Craig Garthwaite ·
Investor's Business Daily
America's unemployment rate is now 6.4%, a nine-year high.
For many Americans, rising unemployment is an unwelcome change from the long economic boom of the 1990s.
But for some, the average rate hides a bigger story.
A new study by the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) identifies 397 counties and cities -- each with a population of over 10,000 -- that had unemployment rates of 9% or above in […]