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Colorado Springs ranked second-worst in the nation for its rising unemployment rate last year, according to a report from the Brookings Institution ranking the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas on a variety of economic indicators in the fourth quarter of 2010.
Colorado Springs ranked 99th out of the top 100 metro areas in the change in the unemployment rate over the last year, Brookings’ quarterly MetroMonitor report found. The only city with a worse job performance over the last year was Las Vegas. Adding insult to injury — or perhaps a silver lining, depending on your perspective — Colorado Springs’ economic output appears to be rebounding strongly from the recession. It’s just not creating any jobs in the process.
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