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• California jobless rate dips below 12 percent

  May 20, 2011 11:54 AM

  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) California's unemployment rate has dropped below 12 percent for the first time since August 2009 another positive sign for the nation's economy. The numbers for April released Friday by the state Employment Development Department show the jobless rate at 11.9 percent. That's the fourth month in a... more »

• GOP leader says CA should adopt Texas' jobs model

  April 28, 2011 4:19 PM

  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Republicans say California needs to follow Texas' model of lower taxes and fewer regulations and legal hurdles to keep the state economy growing and creating jobs. GOP lawmakers gathered Thursday at a Carl's Jr. restaurant in Sacramento to reflect on the lessons they learned from a recent... more »

• March jobless rate slips to 12 percent, jobs down

  April 15, 2011 12:30 PM

  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) California's unemployment rate has dropped to 12 percent, but the number of payroll jobs in the state in March also fell from the previous month. The report Friday by the state Employment Development Department showed the jobless rate was down slightly from February. The rate for the... more »

• Calif. unemployment rate dips slightly in January

  March 4, 2011 12:54 PM

  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) California's unemployment rate has dipped slightly but still remains far higher than the national average. The state Employment Development Department on Friday reported that California's jobless rate was 12.4 percent in January. That was down slightly from 12.5 percent in December. The state's jobless rate has been... more »

• Calif. unemployment rises slightly to 12.5 percent

  January 21, 2011 1:29 PM

  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) California's unemployment rate ticked up by one-tenth of a percentage point in December, to 12.5 percent. That means the state's monthly jobless rate remained above 12 percent for all of 2010. Meanwhile, the national unemployment rate decreased in December to 9.4 percent. The report released Friday by... more »

• California jobless rate holds steady at 12.4 pct

  December 17, 2010 1:27 PM

  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) California's unemployment rate is holding steady for a fourth month at 12.4 percent. The state Employment Development Department on Friday reported a net gain of 1,600 non-farm jobs during November. This followed a revised gain of 43,200 jobs in October. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he's encouraged by... more »

• Calif unemployment rate unchanged at 12.4 percent

  November 19, 2010 11:48 AM

  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Officials say California's unemployment rate remained steady at 12.4 percent over the past month. The state's Employment Development Department released the latest jobless numbers Friday. The data shows that the unemployment rate has now held at or above 12 percent for 15 months. California saw a net... more »

• California jobless rate unchanged in September

  October 22, 2010 12:21 PM

  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) California's unemployment rate stayed put last month, remaining at 12.4 percent after creeping up a tenth of a percentage point between July and August. The state Employment Development Department said Friday the rate is slightly higher than in September 2009, when the rate was 12.1 percent. The... more »

• California jobless rate remains fairly steady

  September 17, 2010 12:07 PM

  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) California's unemployment rate remained fairly steady last month, creeping up one-tenth of a percentage point in August to 12.4 percent. The state Employment Development Department said Friday that the jobless rate grew from 12.3 percent in June and July. The rate is slightly higher than in August... more »

• Calif jobless rate unchanged in July at 12.3 pct

  August 20, 2010 12:17 PM

  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) California showed few signs of economic recovery last month as the state's unemployment rate remained stagnant at 12.3 percent. The state Employment Development Department said Friday that the jobless rate in July was unchanged from the previous month. The jobless figure is a half-percent higher than the... more »

• Calif. jobless rate falls slightly to 12.3 percent

  July 16, 2010 1:52 PM

  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) California's Employment Development Department says the state's unemployment rate fell slightly to 12.3 percent in June, down from 12.4 percent in May. The June rate released Friday was higher than in June last year, when it was 11.6 percent. Last month was also the first this year... more »

• Calif jobless rate falls slightly to 12.4 percent

  June 18, 2010 12:46 PM

  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) California's jobless rate fell slightly in May to 12.4 percent, but the figure is still well above state unemployment numbers for the same time a year ago. The figures released Friday by the state's Employment Development Department showed a one-tenth of a percent drop compared to April.... more »

• Calif. unemployment holds steady at 12.6 percent

  May 21, 2010 12:06 PM

  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) California's unemployment rate held steady last month at 12.6 percent, despite an increase in national unemployment. The state Employment Development Department released the new figures Friday. Non-farm payroll jobs went up by 14,200 in April, marking a fourth straight month of gains. Since Jan. 1, the state... more »

• California jobless rate swells to 12.6 percent

  April 16, 2010 11:54 AM

  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) California's unemployment rate hit a modern record of 12.6 percent in March, though it was up only a fraction over the previous month. The state Employment Development Department also reported Friday that non-farm payroll jobs increased by 4,200 during the month as the economy shows signs of... more »

• Calif. unemployment rate in Feb holds at 12.5 pct

  March 26, 2010 12:16 PM

  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) The state says California's unemployment rate held steady at 12.5 percent in February, although it still lost more than 20,000 jobs. The Employment Development Department reported Friday that the state's loss followed a gain of 32,000 jobs in January. The number of jobs in California have fallen... more »

• Calif. unemployment rate fifth highest in nation

  March 10, 2010 2:04 PM

  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) New federal labor data show that California's unemployment rate remains the fifth highest in the nation. The ranking was released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The state's jobless rate of 12.5 percent in January, which was released last week, remains well above the national... more »

• California unemployment increases to 12.5 percent

  March 5, 2010 1:59 PM

  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) State officials say California's unemployment rate grew slightly to 12.5 percent in January. The latest employment figures were released Friday. The state's unemployment rate in December was 12.3 percent. State officials had previously reported December's unemployment rate at 12.4 percent, but revised that figure Friday. Despite the... more »

• California unemployment remains at 12.4 percent

  January 22, 2010 11:55 AM

  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) California's unemployment rate remains unchanged at 12.4 percent in December compared to the previous month. Last month, the state reported the November unemployment rate at 12.3 percent, but the state Department of Economic Development revised that figure to 12.4 percent on Friday. For the month, California employers... more »

• California unemployment rate hits 12.5 percent

  November 20, 2009 11:28 AM

  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) California's unemployment rate rose to 12.5 percent in October to set another modern record. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says California was one of 29 states reporting unemployment rate increases. Only three states Michigan, Nevada and Rhode Island had higher rates than California last month. The... more »