April 29, 2010 | 12:00 a.m. CST
Even with significant increases in 2008 and 2009, the unemployment rate in Columbia has been lower than the rates at the state and national levels every month for the past 10 years. In that time, the lowest local, state and federal unemployment rates came in spring 2000, and decade highs occurred in summer and fall 2009.
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