Monday, January 23, 2012

California unemployment

  • Buoyed by seasonal hiring, California's unemployment rate dipped slightly in December to 11.1 percent, down two-tenths of a percent from the previous month.
  • (Desert Sun)
  • Since then, the state has borrowed from Uncle Sam to keep the checks for the first 26 weeks of unemployment insurance flowing, while the feds pick up the cost of up to 73 more weeks.
  • (Orange County Register)
  • Berkeley's unemployment rate was 8.9 percent in December, the lowest rate since February 2009, according to data released Friday by the California Employment Development Department.
  • (Daily Californian)
  • Allen, who is also a labor attorney, said discrimination against the unemployed could specifically harm recent military veterans, minority groups with historically high unemployment and women who take maternity leave.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • And that could have implications when they file their income tax returns. Collecting unemployment insurance benefits? All that you received in 2011 is taxed as income.
  • (Billings Gazette)
  • Turn over any Apple device and it reads: Designed In California. Assembled in China But ultimately, Apple executives say curing unemployment is not Apples job. We dont have an obligation to solve Americas problems.
  • (Global Grind)
  • Kings County lost a small number of agricultural jobs in December, pushing the unemployment rate up from 14.6 percent to 15.3 percent last month, the state Employment Development Department said Friday.
  • (Hanford Sentinel)
  • SACRAMENTO - Californias unemployment rate dipped slightly in December to 11.1 percent, its lowest rate since 2009, the state reported Friday. Unemployment is down in Long Beach as well, according to the state of California Employment Development Department.
  • (Long Beach Press-Telegram)
  • according to the California Economic Development Department. The December figure was almost two percentage points below the year-ago level, when unemployment stood at 14.2 percent.
  • (Patch)
  • "When the history is written of the global financial crisis, Bernanke's reputation will be incredibly high," said Bell, a former U.K. Treasury official who studied under Bernanke at Stanford University in California.
  • (Bloomberg)

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