Everyone Still Unemployed California and Nevada

By Douglas A. McIntyre Updated May 31, 5:28AM EDT · Published May 30, 6:51PM EDT

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Unemployment in urban areas improved in most U.S. cities during April. Joblessness fell in 356 of the 372 largest U.S. metro areas, according to the Labor Department. Figures in most states improved as well.

The worst pockets of unemployment remain as they were three years ago, with only the most modest improvement.

The battle to improve jobs growth is still most challenging in the interior region of California. The jobless rate is above 14% in Bakersfield-Delano, Fresno, Stockton, and is 26.8% in El Centro. Even Las Vegas, which was one of the most troubled regions in the U.S., the jobless rate has improved to 11.6%.

The most impressive turnaround is in some states that were not expected to recover because of specific problems. The jobless rate in Michigan dropped to 8% in April from 10.1% in the same month a year ago. This has happened without a sharp improvement in job in the auto industry. Florida’s jobs situation, badly undermined by a collapse of the real estate market, is 8.3%, down from 10% in the same month a year ago.

Everyone still works in several states, which includes North Dakota where joblessness was 3.1% in April.

Douglas A. McIntyre

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

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A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.