Jobless rates rise in all U.S. metro areas in Feb.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Unemployment rates moved higher in all of the nation's largest metropolitan areas in February with Indiana's Elkhart-Goshen and North Carolina's Hickory-Lenoir-Morgantown registering the biggest annual increases. The Labor Department says all 372 metropolitan areas tracked saw their jobless rates rise in February from a year earlier. Elkhart-Goshen and Hickory-Lenoir-Morgantown were both hammered by manufacturing layoffs. Eklhart-Goshen's jobless rate soared to 18 percent, up 12.5 percentage points. The unemployment rate in read more

NECN | April 1, 2009

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