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CA Employment Report reveals slow job growth, shrinking labor force

The California Center for Jobs & the Economy has just released their “California Employment Report” for April 2015. Among the most notable highlights from this report: CA’s unemployment rate declines to 6.3 percent, still 17 percent higher than the national rate:

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State media, Jerry Brown ignore CA’s worst-in-nation poverty rate

If you were a resident in the state with the nation’s highest poverty rate, wouldn’t you think you’d be aware of that fact? That a higher percentage of your family, friends, neighbors and others in your community struggled to make

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California employment back to 2009

July 9, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi California’s current employment rate is about at the same as in 2009, a year after the bank panic and mortgage meltdown of 2008. While California’s unemployment rate has dropped from a high of 12.3

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