Unemployment in Colorado

The Wall Street Journal provides some detail today on unemployment levels in metro areas nationwide. Here's the data for Colorado:

• Boulder - currently, 6.3% up 2.3% in the last year
• Colorado Springs - currently, 8.5% up 3
• Denver/Aurora - currently, 8.2% up 3.4
• Ft. Collins/Loveland - currently, 6.8% up 2.5
• Grand Junction - currently, 8.2% up 4.3
• Greeley - currently, 8.7% up 3.5
• Pueblo - currently 9.1%, up 3.1

We're right around the national average, though Boulder is a little lower and Pueblo a little higher. Things could be a lot worse I suppose but if you know anyone looking for work you know that times certainly feel a lot more desperate than the numbers suggest.