Only El Centro California has a higher unemployment rate at 22.6 percent.
After Merced is Yuma, Arizona at 15.4 percent.
The list compiled by the Labor Department doesn't include several smaller cities in the Central Valley such as Mendota and Firebaugh, which have unemployment rates of about 30 percent.
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