Posts Tagged ‘Jobs Gap’

California Faces Decisive 2012
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
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BY JOHN SEILER JAN. 4, 2012 It's fun to gloat about our great weather when calling freezing relatives Back East on New Year's Day. And some good things are keeping the sun shining this year. Silicon Valley's global technology dominance will continue in 2012. Despite the foolishness of the s...

CA ‘Jobs Gap’ Jumps to Record High
Monday, August 29th, 2011
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AUG. 29, 2011 By JOHN SEILER California's "Jobs Gap" with the rest of America jumped to a record high, according to new calculations. In 2010, I devised the "Jobs Gap" to measure how much worse unemployment is in California that the rest of America. The Jobs Gap is calculated by subtracting...

CA ‘Jobs Gap’ Spikes Upward
Friday, March 11th, 2011
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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...