Metropolitan area unemployment: the highs and lows, August 2015

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Unemployment rates were lower in August 2015 than a year earlier in 365 of the 387 metropolitan areas, higher in 16 areas, and unchanged in 6 areas. Eleven areas had jobless rates of less than 3.0 percent and three areas had rates of at least 10.0 percent. Fargo, North Dakota-Minnesota, had the lowest unemployment rate in August, at 2.2 percent. Ames, Iowa; Bismarck, North Dakota; and Lincoln, Nebraska, shared the second lowest unemployment rate in the nation (2.3 percent).