Unemployment rates climbed in all U.S. metropolitan areas from last June to this June, the government announced on Wednesday, July 29, 2009. Some of the jumps were dramatic. Most of the hardest hit metro areas are in California and Michigan.

El Centro, Calif., again recorded the highest unemployment rate of all metro areas, with 27.5 percent out of work.

The Riverside-San Bernardino area 13.7 percent,

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USA-Today
29 July, 2009

Unemployment has soared into Depression-era range; it is 40% in western FRESNO COUNTY area where most everyone's job is dependent on farming. Resident laborers who for years sweated in fields to fill the nation's food baskets find themselves waiting for food handouts.