Friday, September 19, 2008

California employment numbers - Aug 2008

From http://wwwedd.cahwnet.gov/About_EDD/pdf/urate200809.pdf

- Unemployment rate at 7.7 percent.
- Total number of unemployed people increased by 60000 to around 1.5M.
- Around 0.5M people recieve unemployment benefits.
- Around 17M currently have a job.
- Over the last year construction lost the most number of jobs - 85K.

The table on page 4 of that report is very interesting.

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