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Would have been nice if that article delivered on the promise made in the headline and actually listed the eight counties.

Fortunately, the list can be found on the site after more searching: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/11/business/la-fiw-cal-...

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From the LA times

* Colusa: 27.4% * Imperial: 27.3% * Merced: 21.7% * Plumas: 22.3% * San Benito: 21.1% * Sutter: 21% * Trinity: 25.8% * Yuba: 20.4%

These are all small rural counties. Bad for them, but the large metropolitan areas are better off.

My county (Stanislaus) is mostly rural but includes Modesto and Turlock (home of CSU Stanislaus). With a population of 1/2 a million we have unemployment rate of 18.9%. Directly north is San Joaquin County with Stockton as its largest city. Population of 700K and unemployment rate of 18.4%.

We aren't exactly giant urban centers but we're still a long way from tiny (sub 75k population) counties like Yuba, Colusa, San Benito, etc. I'm not sure we're a great deal better off...

The data can also be calculated from the latest BLS statistics by county: http://www.bls.gov/lau/

The data is for January 2009 to February 2010.

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