Commentary California was named the third-strongest economy in the United States by WalletHub despite all the state’s metropolitan areas’ unemployment rates being among the worst in the country. Of the 27 California metropolitan areas tracked by the U.S. Census Bureau, all rank in the bottom half for employment. Within the state, Silicon Valley (San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara) had the lowest unemployment rate in April, at 5.1 percent, and ranked 196 of the 389 metropolitan areas measured by the U.S. government agency. El Centro has the highest unemployment rate in the country, at 16.1 percent, three percentage points worse than the nation’s second-worst unemployment rate, in Yuma, Arizona, with 13.1 percent. According to WalletHub’s list of the country’s top state economies, three—Washington, California, and Massachusetts—are traditional tech hubs. Others are up-and-coming Western states—including Utah, Idaho, and Colorado—receiving people leaving California. The metropolitan area around Logan, Utah, on the Utah–Idaho border, has the …