Lancaster unemployment rate highest in area

KERA, our local NPR news radio outlet,reports that the Lancaster unemployment rate is in double digits.

The unemployment rates for the state remained at 8.2 percent in March. It dropped slightly in North Texas to 8.3 percent. But some area cities are faring better than others, as KERA's Shelley Kofler reports.

Dallas has a jobless rate well above the state average. It's 8.8 percent in Big D, Cedar Park andGrand Prairie . Unemployment is higher still in Duncanville and in double digits in Lancaster where it's 10.9 percent.

North Texas employment appears strongest in Coppell, Denton and Flower Mound where the jobless rate is below 7 percent.

Will better schools help? I sure hope so.