'Company county' in NE Texas anxiously tries to weather another bust cycle

Full story: Fort Worth Star-Telegram

At 8.2 percent, Texas' unemployment rate is the highest in 22 years. But that sounds enviable in Morris County, an isolated industrial island in the northeast corner of the state where the jobless rate has reached 15.6 percent, even higher than in Michigan.

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