Posts Tagged ‘unemployment’

Karl Rove: CA GOP must ‘Get back in the game and fight’
Sunday, March 3rd, 2013
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March 3, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO -- "Losing has one great benefit to it," Karl Rove, told a large luncheon California Republican Party spring convention in Sacramento yesterday. "It gives you the chance to start fresh to look everything anew and start rebuilding from the ground up i...

CA GOP Convention: DeVore lays out stark CA vs. TX contrast
Saturday, March 2nd, 2013
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Mar. 2, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO -- Former Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, R-Irvine, left the Golden State for Texas in 2011 after he termed out. DeVore returned to his former state Friday night to speak at the dinner banquet of the California Republican Party Spring Convention in the sta...

House Whip McCarthy visits Sacto Press Club
Friday, March 1st, 2013
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March 1, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO -- U.S. House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from the 22nd District, visited the Sacramento Press Club today and shared his insight into the future of the California Republican Party. McCarthy started off with the word now in everyoneâ...

Gov. Antoinette-Brown: Let the unemployed eat cake
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
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Feb. 19, 2013 By Chris Reed Over the weekend, the U-T San Diego had a story about the Texas vs. California business-climate debate. It featured an astounding claim from Gov. Jerry Brown's top economics adviser: "California provides a higher level of service than other states, said Kish Rajan,...

Politicians, media distort economic facts
Wednesday, February 6th, 2013

Feb. 6, 2013 By Katy Grimes The U.S. economy lost more than 1.4 million jobs between December and January. But it's almost impossible to find any reports in the mainstream media about this. Instead, the media primarily have reported on reduced federal spending, as if that is enough of ...

Small biz jobs up, but not in CA
Wednesday, January 30th, 2013
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Jan. 30, 2013 By Katy Grimes While small businesses across the nation created 20,000 new jobs this month, California lost small business jobs, according to Intuit Payroll's Small Business Index.  The Intuit Small Business Employment Index is a measure of employment for businesses with ...

CA soon could have highest U.S. unemployment rate
Friday, January 25th, 2013

Jan. 24, 2013 California's unemployment rate stayed the same in December, at 9.8 percent, the third highest. But what's curious is that the unemployment rates of No. 1 and No. 2, Nevada and Rhodes Island at 10.2 percent each, are inching downward and soon likely will be lower than California's. ...

Rail project begins grabbing CA farmers’ land
Friday, January 18th, 2013

Jan. 18, 2013 By Katy Grimes Before high-speed rail planners can do anything with the Central Valley route, they are looking at an estimated $360 million to buy out 356 privately-owned land parcels along the route. According to a recent legal decision, holdouts will be bought out throug...

California tops ‘worst run cities’ list
Thursday, January 17th, 2013

Jan. 17, 2013 By Katy Grimes Surprise! Sacramento is on another list of 'worst run cities' in the nation. The website 247wallstreet.com ranked the best and worst run cities in the U.S. Ranked number 18, Sacramento is sandwiched between Reno and Chicago. Sacramento's population i...

LAO Whitewashes Gov. Brown’s Rosy Budget
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
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Jan. 15, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO -- "Everything's Coming Up Roses," from the Broadway musical Gypsy, should be Gov. Jerry Brown's new theme song. His 2013-14 budget proposal, released last Thursday, was full of happy news, good times a projected balanced budget and an upcoming surplus....