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Originally Posted by emathias
I can't find directly comparable numbers for all three cities, but:
LA county's unemployment rate in January was 10.5% source
New York City's unemployment rate in January was 7.3% source
Chicago's metro area unemployment rate in December was 6.9% source (city of Chicago data for January available next week) |
I've already answered this in another question, but LA county is not encompassing LA's full metro, including parts of Orange county. That said, I was probably (our current unemployment rate is not available yet) wrong in the assesment of the UE, but that isn't a assessment of the full economy.