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[BY THE NUMBERS: State by state unemployment numbers]
The Labor Department says all 372 metropolitan areas tracked saw their jobless rates rise in February from a year earlier.
Elkhart-Goshen and Hickory-Lenoir-Morgantown were both hammered by manufacturing layoffs.
Eklhart-Goshen's jobless rate soared to 18 percent, up 12.5 percentage points. The unemployment rate in Hickory-Lenoir-Morgantown jumped to 15.7 percent, a 9.3 percentage point increase.
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