Article: Area jobless rate skyrockets.(City/Region)(Eugene-Springfield's jump in the March unemployment rate year-to-year, to 14.1 percent, is the nation's fourth-largest rise)

Byline: From Register-Guard and news service reports

CORRECTION(RAN MAY 2, 2009):Page A1: From March 2008 to March 2009, the unemployment rates in the Portland metro area rose 6.5 percentage points and in the Salem metro area rose 6.4 percentage points, according to U.S. Labor Department data. An article on Thursday about jobless rates contained incorrect figures.

Oregon's rapidly deteriorating economy has earned the state - and the Eugene-Springfield area - more unenviable national distinctions, new federal data show.

By two measures - unemployment rates, and the rate at which joblessness is increasing - numerous Oregon metro areas rank among ...

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