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You might also say that startups fight unemployment already, by creating a cadre of jobs. They do, but most of that impact is felt in the neighborhoods of the startups -- Silicon Valley runs an unemployment rate of as low as 4% vs. 7.8% nationally.

Sending work to job training programs in the rest of the country lets us share the love a bit.



> Silicon Valley runs an unemployment rate of as low as 4% vs. 7.8% nationally.

Where did that stat come from? According to this story, Silicon Valley had a higher than average unemployment rate as of last summer:

http://news.yahoo.com/selfish-silicon-valley-higher-average-...


Silicon Valley runs an unemployment rate of as low as 4% vs. 7.8% nationally.

~4% [1] is inline with the overall unemployment rate of college graduates nationally.

[1]http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2012/...




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