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West Virginia has lost a lot of jobs in the past year. Here's a list of Unemployment Rates, by Metro Area that include WV. (The first number is the April, 2009 unemployment rate, the second is year-over-year change since April, 2008).
Metro Area State - April Jobless Rate - Change from April 2008
Weirton-Steubenville WV-OH 11.7% +6.1
Hagerstown-Martinsburg MD-WV 9.3% +4.7
Parkersburg-Marietta-Vienna
WV-OH 9.2% +4.7
Wheeling WV-OH 8.6% +3.8
Winchester VA-WV 8% +4.5
Cumberland MD-WV 7.8% +3.1
Huntington-Ashland WV-KY-OH 7.4% +3
Charleston WV 6.8% +3.2
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria
DC-VA-MD-WV 5.6% +2.6
Morgantown WV 4.9% +2.1
Thing are tough all over, with the panhandles and other border regions especially hard hit. In the Eastern Panhandle only the core DC area still has relatively low unemployment, all of the exurb communities (those near Winchester, Hagerstown, Cumberland) have been hit much harder already.
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