The 20 Most Unemployed Cities In America

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

[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.