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The Inland Empire had the highest unemployment rate of any major U.S. metropolitan area during October, according to data released Wednesday.
The two-county region, which has had higher unemployment than both California and the nation during the economic recovery, recorded a 6.1 percent jobless rate in non-agricultural jobs last month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.
That was the highest rate of any metro area with a population of one million or more., based on the 2010 U.S. Census.
Boston-Cambridge, Mass. and Nashua, N.H. had the lowest rate – 2.6 percent – among the 51 metro areas surveyed in that category.
Unemployment rates in October were down year-over-year in 231 U.S. metropolitan areas, up in 127 and unchanged in 29.
The national unemployment rate in October – not seasonally adjusted – was 4.7 percent. That was virtually unchanged from October 2015, according to the bureau.
