The 20 Most Unemployed Cities In America

Business Insider ^ | 11/04/09 | Kamelia Angelova and Joe Weisenthal

[TigerLikesRooster]

1. Detroit, Michigan

Unemployment Rate: 17.3%

Labor Force: 2.1 million

Unemployed: 361,100

It's Detroit. Need we say more?

[Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area]

2. San Bernardino, California

Unemployment Rate: 14.2%

Labor Force: 1.8 million

Unemployed: 253,000

3. Las Vegas, Nevada

Unemployment Rate: 13.9%

Labor Force: 1 million

Unemployed: 141,000

[TigerLikesRooster]

Six Californian cities made the top 20 list.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[Sgt_Schultze]

This list is probably remarkably similar to the 20 most democrat-run cities in America

[tatsinfla]

4 from florida....thats 10 of the top twenty between us...

[catman67]

Probably counting illegals. Same with the Florida cities.

[tx_eggman]

Damn, they left out Texas ... go figure.

[CatQuilt]

The format of the ‘article’ stinks. Is there a list in text or do we have to click 20 times to see all the cities?

[The Sons of Liberty]

Funny, all but 3 or 4 are in states that voted for B0z0 the clown. His marxist policies just ain’t cutting it.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Obviously, they want readers to run up the click count.:-)

[stainlessbanner]

I think they do that to generate more page views for advertisers. Irritating for sure

[TigerLikesRooster]

These cities should be walled in and used as penal colonies in future America. We can put N. Korea’s camp guards to maintain control:-)

[Pessimist]

I call BS. Cleveland OH usually appears in the top 10 on most lists, but it’s totally absent here.

And no, things have not gotten better here...

[goseminoles]

I’m on a blackberry and I can’t go through the headache of checking all the cities. Can someone post the list?
Just wondering if Tallahasse is on there.

[astyanax]

I saw a great article yesterday that compared the cities with the highest unemployment rates to years of democrat control.
Can anyone point me towards it?
I’ve been searching all morning for it...

[the long march]

Notice that it really is large cities......so The One hasn’t ‘created or saved’ near;y enough has he?

California is hit particularly hard. The worst areas are in the central valley where the Feds (in the shape of the EPA) are withholding water from farmers. There is a government mad drought killing what used to be the bread basket of the world and NO ONE seems to care

[Let's Roll]

ditto - it’s ridiculous

[albie]

McDonnell ran on “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs”! Doubt we’ll see Virginia on this list anytime soon. Woo Hoo!

[TigerLikesRooster]

1. Detroit, Michigan
2. San Bernardino, California
3. Las Vegas, Nevada
4. Providence, Rhode Island
5. Los Angeles, California
6. Sacramento, California
7. San Jose, California
8. Tampa, Florida
9. Charlotte, North Carolina
10. Orlando, Florida
11. Miami, Florida
12. Portland, Oregon
13. Jacksonville, Florida
14. Atlanta, Georgia
15. San Francisco, California
16. San Diego, California
17. Birmingham, Alabama
18. Chicago, Illinois
19. Louisville, Kentucky
20. St. Louis, Missouri

[AuntB]

All sanctuary cities for illegal aliens. What a surprise!

[oyez]

Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee are missing. Holy cow!

[70th Division]

Those figures are so far off it is rediculeus. Detroit is like 27% Flint is 25% Port Huron is 25%

[VOA]

“2. San Bernardino, California
Unemployment Rate: 14.2%”

Just my observation from following news while in Los Angeles
during 1995-2005.
I suspect the actual unemployment rate isn’t so high...as there (at
least then) were plenty of sole proprietors in the San Bernardino
area working at methamphetamine manufacture and marketing.

I’m not knocking the area...we have plenty of the meth trade
here in Missouri.

[VOA]

“20. St. Louis, Missouri”

Thank G-d I’m driving to St. Charles, MO (a decent suburban area),
not St. Louis later this week for a meeting.

Heck, parts of St. Louis looked like a decaying version of the post-apocalypse
scene you see in movies.
And that was in the early 1980s!!!

[CatQuilt]

Thank you! ;-)

[VOA]

These cities should be walled in and used as penal colonies in future America.

Just as Mr. Limbaugh said a place like Albania should be preserved
as it was when the Soviet empire broke up.
(and started moving to the USA, with Obama as it's prime
evangelist, IMHO).

I remember ABC Nightline reporter Dave Mirisch (sp?) touring
parts of Albania soon after it "opened up".
The countryside was COVERED in these little concrete gun pits
(probably could hold one, at most, two fighters with guns and ammo).

All to help Albania repel an invading force of "running dog lackeys"
that never arrived.

Too bad for the Albanians...the best thing that could have happened
to them was to have been defeated by the USA military.

[cyclotic]

We’re Number 1, We’re Number 1.

Not for long. After losing my job, I’m moving to Baltimore next month

[lainie]

1. Detroit, Michigan (17.3%; 361,100 unemployed)
2. San Bernardino, California (14.2%; 253,000 unemployed)
3. Las Vegas, Nevada (13.9%; 141,000 unemployed)
4. Providence, Rhode Island (12.4%; 87,000 unemployed)
5. Los Angeles, California (11.9%; 778,200 unemployed)
6. Sacramento, California (11.8%; 124,400 unemployed)
7. San Jose, California (11.8%; 107,500 unemployed)
8. Tampa, Florida (11.7%; 154,300 unemployed)
9. Charlotte, North Carolina (11.6%; 99,100 unemployed)
10. Orlando, Florida (11.5%; 128,200 unemployed)
11. Miami, Florida (10.9%; 311,700 unemployed)
12. Portland, Oregon (10.9%; 127,400 unemployed)
13. Jacksonville, Florida (10.7%; 73,200 unemployed)
14. Atlanta, Georgia (10.5%; 277,800 unemployed)
15. San Francisco, California (10.4%; 235,200 unemployed)
16. San Diego, California (10.2%; 159,800 unemployed)
17. Birmingham, Alabama (10.2%; 51,700 unemployed)
18. Chicago, Illinois (10%; 487,000 unemployed)
19. Louisville, Kentucky (10%; 63,500 unemployed)
20. St. Louis, Missouri (9.9%; 141,800 unemployed)

[lainie]

Interesting. Here are the top-10 California cities by size:

1. Los Angeles (4,065,585)
2. San Diego (1,353,998)
3. San Jose (1,007,223)
4. San Francisco (845,559)
5. Fresno (495,913)
6. Long Beach (492,682)
7. Sacramento (491,097)
8. Oakland (425,068)
9. Santa Ana (355,662)
10. Anaheim (348,467)
...
19. San Bernardino (204,483)

Five of the top ten are on this nationwide list. Assuming it's not all garbage.

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[Springman]

Ping.

[Eagle Eye]

Tallahassee? Isn’t that a suburb of Gainseville?

[goseminoles]

Haha... Funny!

[numberonepal]

Tallahassee? Isn’t that a suburb of Gainseville?

Miami

[goseminoles]

Tallahassee is a suburn of LA(Lower Alabama) ;o)

[SoCalPol]

Most of the Unemployed here in San Diego are some service jobs, some civil service.

There are huge job growth areas here in Defense contractor jobs, NeuroBio sciences, Telecomm, and other areas.
These are Univ. degree jobs.

There is also job migration here from states on the east coast to Texaas getting good jobs here.

[PERKY2004]

The percentage of unemployed persons in some central California small towns is staggering ... and (of course) they didn’t make the Top 20 list. Local newspapers are reporting unemployment rates in places like Mendota (Fresno County) as high as 40%.

[PERKY2004]

The unemployment rate in the Fresno County was 14.1 percent in September 2009.

[T Minus Four]

Grrrrr, why must everything be a slide-show lately? It takes forever to load and forever to back out of it when you’re done.

[Clemenza]

None of this changes the fact that San Diego is second only to San Fran in smugness and voted for "The One." ;)

[SoCalPol]

Wow, took you almost two weeks to come up with your comment.

San Diego is the largest city in the U.S. with a Republican Mayor
All of our Board Of Supervisors are Republican.
3 of the 5 Congressmen for San Diego are Conservative Republicans.
Marine Col. Duncal Hunter, Bilbray, and Darrell Issa.