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Topic: California jobless rate falls to 9.8%,
lowest in almost 4 years |
California jobless rate falls to 9.8%,
lowest in almost 4 years
Los Angeles Times, by Ricardo Lopez
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Posted By:LittleHoodedMonk, 12/21/2012 11:53:01 AM
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| With one of the strongest holiday shopping seasons in years, a surge in hiring by retailers helped lower California´s unemployment rate in November to its lowest level in almost four years. The state´s jobless rate fell to 9.8% from 10.1% in October, according to data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The drop in the unemployment rate came even as the state´s labor force – the number of people who are able to work and either have a job or are looking for one – grew by 34,100 people in November. A growing labor force is typically a sign that job seekers feel encouraged to resume looking
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Comments:
Can you even begin to imagine a headline like this during the Bush Administration being good economic news? They need to include those in the "statistics" that want to work, but are better off with government handouts.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
bassman, 12/21/2012 11:54:28 AM (No. 9077884)
The rate is sure to fall when people are leaving the state in droves.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
VinGoombatz, 12/21/2012 12:08:08 PM (No. 9077915)
whistling past the graveyard?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Safari Man, 12/21/2012 12:09:06 PM (No. 9077921)
Who needs a job? Why work? Utopia doesn´t involve labor.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
cal riptide, 12/21/2012 12:15:28 PM (No. 9077937)
This headline is total B.S. The U5/U6 rate is around 27%. People have just given up and many are leaving the state; around 80,000 per year. The only people being hired are non anglo government workers. California is dead and you can stick a fork in it. In the last year alone, 25,000 millionaires have fled the state.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Noj15, 12/21/2012 12:19:43 PM (No. 9077948)
Just reported this morning: Chevron is taking 800 jobs out of California to the state of Texas. This article is just another lie from the LA Times. Jerry Brown. Fail.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
fritzilou, 12/21/2012 12:19:51 PM (No. 9077949)
Did there unemployment insurance end and how many left the state to get jobs elsewhere, which lowered the unemployment rate in CA.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
strike3, 12/21/2012 12:21:28 PM (No. 9077956)
.3% drop was certainly a nosedive for you folks. Just wait a few months and you will see the far side of 12% when your messiah´s taxes and fees kick in. You´re probably on track to lose 10% of your population of workers first.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
OdinsAcolyte, 12/21/2012 12:25:53 PM (No. 9077972)
pi1tiful.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
august9, 12/21/2012 12:33:48 PM (No. 9077991)
Read the first sentence!
What do they think will happen in January? I doubt that retailers will hang onto their staff in anticipation of Valentines Day!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JAN, 12/21/2012 1:20:30 PM (No. 9078065)
And we thought that once the election was over (stolen) that the lies would stop.
We were so wrong.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
lylacat, 12/21/2012 2:02:38 PM (No. 9078139)
If anyone really believes these numbers they have to be a moron. I live in California; I have never known so many friends who cannot find work. Most are leaving the state.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
right-turn, 12/21/2012 2:52:06 PM (No. 9078209)
Why look for work when it´s better to sit on your butt and spend others people´s money.
These people are not included in the jobless figures.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Spidey, 12/21/2012 3:21:46 PM (No. 9078252)
They probably want you to believe Brown´s big tax increase had led to more hiring so it´s a hint for the whole country.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
viking diver, 12/21/2012 4:37:01 PM (No. 9078384)
The government idiots don´t count those who are off unemployment insurance, don´t count those underemployed or those who don´t look for work. That 3 year extension zero so graciously gave using our tax money is over and every month more and more will be dropped from the unemployment statistics
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
thewarden, 12/21/2012 6:10:48 PM (No. 9078488)
I work in retail and we hired 80 seasonal workers at our store in November and are keeping none. Zero. Merry Christmas, Barry!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
lotsamojo, 12/21/2012 7:37:42 PM (No. 9078587)
Any available data on outgoing moving vans and U Haual trailors?
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