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mahatmakanejeeves

(56,897 posts)
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 12:46 PM Apr 2013

California unemployment drops to 9.4%, lowest in more than 4 years

Source: Los Angeles Times (based on BLS data)

By Shan Li
April 19, 2013, 7:59 a.m.

California's labor market picked up steam last month, according to figures released Friday, as the state's unemployment rate fell to 9.4% and employers added a net 25,500 jobs in March.

The March rate was the lowest in California since Dec. 2008, when 9.2% of the state's labor force was out of work.

Gains were mostly notched in the professional and business services sector and leisure and hospitality sector, according to data by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. February's unemployment rate was 9.6%.
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California has seen steady job growth for much of the last year. Year-over-year payroll growth was 2%, stronger than the U.S. as a whole.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-california-jobs-unemployment-20130419,0,2972167.story



Jobless rate down in 26 states, up in 7 in March; payroll jobs down in 26 states, up in 23

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm

I'll post that too.
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California unemployment drops to 9.4%, lowest in more than 4 years (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2013 OP
Yay! SoapBox Apr 2013 #1
What a great victory! slackmaster Apr 2013 #2
buh bye! CreekDog Apr 2013 #6
! neverforget Apr 2013 #12
Wow. senseandsensibility Apr 2013 #13
Less people out of work in CA because they are all moving to Texas Redford Apr 2013 #3
Texas, where the unemployment rate is now 6.4% in spite of all the people moving there. slackmaster Apr 2013 #4
Lacks regulators means more jobs itsrobert Apr 2013 #5
less regulations don't mean more jobs CreekDog Apr 2013 #10
pretty bad when 9.4% is considered some kind of victory after five years Skittles Apr 2013 #7
And I was one of those who became employed. Le Taz Hot Apr 2013 #8
Glad to hear of your good fortune... Fumesucker Apr 2013 #11
Still very dismal. Throd Apr 2013 #9
how about... wages for the common man? quadrature Apr 2013 #14

Redford

(373 posts)
3. Less people out of work in CA because they are all moving to Texas
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 01:22 PM
Apr 2013

I have 5 neighbors that are all CA transplants.

 

quadrature

(2,049 posts)
14. how about... wages for the common man?
Sat Apr 20, 2013, 03:01 AM
Apr 2013

I have been lead to believe,
that unless your are very $$$ or
part of the in-crowd,
That the economic outlook is bleak.

Manufacturing can't be runout
of town fast enough.

or not,
please enlighten me

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