Unemployment rates fall in more than 75 percent of metro areas due to widespread job gains, By Christopher S. Rugaber (AP), April 6, 2011, Los Angeles Times: “Unemployment rates are falling in most metro areas across the country, suggesting that recent nationwide gains in hiring are widespread and not limited to a few healthy regions. More than three-quarters of the nation’s 372 largest metro areas reported lower unemployment rates in February than the previous month, the Labor Department said Wednesday. That’s the most to report a decline since September. And more than 300 areas added jobs in February compared to the previous month. That’s a much better showing than January, when most metro areas lost jobs…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty