Tampa Ranks No. 2 For Largest Increase In Job Losses For November

Tough news for the Tampa Bay area today from the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics. Of the 49 largest metropolitan areas with a (Census 2000) population of at least 1-million, the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater area saw its jobless rate in November increase a whopping 3.3 percentage points -- to 7.8 percent from 4.5 percent in November 2007. That percentage increase was second among big metro areas only to the 3.6-point jobless loss in Providence-Fall River-Warwick, R.I.-Mass. And it equals, interestingly, the 3.3-point jobless loss reported in Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, N.C.-S.C., a metro area that fared well in recent years until the banking industry started to suffer and Charlotte-based giant Wachovia Corp. was sold to California's Wells Fargo.

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