AUG. 26, 2011 By JOHN SEILER California's jobs picture is so bleak even politicians finally have taken notice. Unemployment in the state, after dropping a little earlier this year, jumped in July to 12 percent from 11.8 percent in June. The national economic picture also is bleak, meaning t...
Posts Tagged ‘California unemployment’Brown Jobs Plan Just More GimmicksFriday, August 26th, 2011Zombie Recovery: CA Jobless Rate JumpsFriday, July 22nd, 2011 JULY 22, 2011 By JOHN SEILER California is suffering what I call a "Zombie Recovery." The state economy is walking, but dead. Today the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released new numbers for June 2011 showing that California's unemployment rose to 11.8 percent from 11.7 percent in May. Th... CA ‘Jobs Gap’ Spikes UpwardFriday, March 11th, 2011 MARCH 11, 2011 BY JOHN SEILER New unemployment figures released March 10 show that California's Jobs Gap has jumped to 3.4 percent in January 2011. That's up from 2.6 percent a year earlier, in January 2010. The "Jobs Gap" is a figure I devised a year ago to explain how much California is l... |