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by Glide 5908 days ago
I was reading an unemployment report the local Fairfax county paper (in northern VA if you don't know). During this recession the unemployment rate was 5.6%. I think it normally hovers around 4.6% or something.

This isn't to say that the housing bubble did not affect the area. It did. But the unemployment rate is still very close to "normal."