http://blogs.wsj.com/economics...s-except-in-alabama/
The labor market improved over the last year in most of the nation’s largest cities, following the national trend. But 11 metropolitan areas experienced increases in their jobless rates — and almost all of them, it turns out, were in Alabama.
The Cotton State saw unemployment-rate increases in several metro areas, including Montgomery, Huntsville and Mobile, according to new Labor Department figures.