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.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)...take that and chew away, PukeBaggers!
Go Jerry Go!
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)Fourth highest rate in the nation. Only Mississippi, Illinois, and Nevada have higher rates.
http://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm
ETA:
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)senseandsensibility
(16,713 posts)He was a very long time DUer with thousands of posts! I wonder what the last straw was?
Redford
(373 posts)I have 5 neighbors that are all CA transplants.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)itsrobert
(14,157 posts)Sadly it means more factory 'accidents'.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)that's a right wing meme.
Skittles
(152,966 posts)just saying
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)Yay!
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Throd
(7,208 posts)quadrature
(2,049 posts)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