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The statewide unemployment rate went up a notch to 5.3% in August (from 5.2% in July), tied with Illinois for the second highest behind Nevada’s 5.5% rate, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said.
The UCLA forecast saw California’s unemployment rate ranging from 4.6% to 4.7% over the next two years. That’s higher than its national forecast of 3.8% for the same period.
California’s unemployment rate was the nation’s highest in February, as the high cost of living and the loss of construction, machinery and agriculture jobs hit hard. ... It should average 4.7 ...
The counties with the highest unemployment rates were generally located in inland areas and had lower levels of income. Unemployment rate has reached 12.4 percent in 2010 which is highest recorded from 1976. Unemployment rates in California reached historic lows in 2000 and 2006.
Currently California employers pay a federal unemployment insurance tax of 1.2% on the first $7,000 of wages per employee, but that will rise incrementally every year so long as California is in ...
The federal unemployment insurance rate (now) [when?] is 6.2% of the first $7,000 of a worker's income. The Great Recession resulted in a high unemployment rate, causing California to borrow about $10 billion from the federal government. The Employment Training Tax (ETT) rate for 2014 is 0.1 percent on the first $7,000 per employee per calendar ...
California gained 43,700 nonfarm jobs last month, the state’s biggest monthly increase since October. The state’s jobs numbers have lagged, logging the nation’s highest unemployment rate in ...
Unemployment rates historically are lower for those groups with higher levels of education. For example, in May 2016 the unemployment rate for workers over 25 years of age was 2.5% for college graduates, 5.1% for those with a high school diploma, and 7.1% for those without a high school diploma.