In the early 2000s, unemployment in the Rural Capital Area matched national unemployment rates, but since 2006 and through the recession, unemployment in the RCA has remained significantly lower than the U.S.

Regional unemployment peaked in 2010 at 7.3%, well below U.S. unemployment of 9.6% in the same year.  By 2018, the unemployment rate in the Rural Capital Area fell to a multi-decade low of 3.9%.

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