New York was the worst American city for the unemployed.

The biggest challenge for the life of the unemployed in the U.S. city was New York. This is evidenced by material magazine Forbes, which was top most and the least promising of American cities in terms of lost working citizens.
The criterion by which to rank the city, was the ratio between the maximum value of unemployment benefits and the cost of living for individuals with annual incomes 150 thousand dollars. By this measure most favorable to the lives of unemployed middle-class city has become a Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania). In this locality ratio was 47.6 percent, which is representative of middle class population, lishivshiysya work, would be able to meet their normal requirements by almost half.
Among cities, the leaders also included the Providence, Rhode Island (41 percent), and Charlotte in North Carolina (39.9 percent). At present a dozen Boston, Raleigh, Philadelphia and Seattle.
At the opposite end of the list, other than New York, where the ratio of benefits to cost of living is only 17.2 per cent, are also of San Francisco (20.6 percent) and Orlando (21.4 percent).
In general, residents of large cities suffer from higher unemployment, because the magnitude of the unemployment benefit is set at the state level, not the city. Meanwhile, the cost of living in cities and towns the size of several hundred thousand people are usually much higher.
Unemployment in the United States has risen significantly due to the economic crisis in the country reached in January 2009, 17-year peak of 7.6 percent. According to specialists in the coming months, a reduction of jobs in the U.S. economy will continue.