Increases in unemployment rates for selected metropolitan areas, not seasonally adjusted, December 1997 to December 1998 Area Percentage point increase in unemployment rate United States -0.4 Albany, Ga. 1.1 Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito, Tex. 1.1 Sherman-Denison, Tex. 1.2 Pine Bluff, Ark. 1.5 Waterloo-Cedar Falls, Iowa 1.5 San Angelo, Tex. 1.9 Odessa-Midland, Tex. 2.7