California Unemployment Report Fosters Doubts On Recovery [New Jobs Mostly Government Workers!]

LATimes ^ | June 18, 2010 | Alana Semuels

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California Unemployment Report Fosters Doubts On Recovery The addition of 28,300 jobs in May mostly represents temporary census positions, adding to fears that the state's climb out of the recession will take longer than expected.

Alana Semuels June 18, 2010

California added 28,300 jobs to its payrolls in May, but many were temporary government jobs, adding to fears that the economic recovery will be even more sluggish than originally anticipated. The state added 30,000 federal government jobs in the month, according to the Employment Development Department. Many of them were census jobs. The manufacturing, information and professional and business services sectors also posted slight gains in the month.

The state's unemployment rate dipped to 12.4%, from a revised 12.5% in April.

Still, the large number of government jobs portends bad news for the economy. "The 28,300 net job gain is illusory," said Michael Bernick, the former head of the EDD and now a lawyer at the Sedgwick firm in San Francisco. "This number is … nearly all census workers."

The unemployment rate in Los Angeles County increased in May, to 12.3%, from a revised 12.2% in April. The county added 6,500 jobs, mostly in government, leisure and hospitality, information, trade, transportation and utilities. The federal government was responsible for 9,300 jobs, helping to offset big losses in the traditionally strong education and health services fields. Construction posted a small gain of 500 jobs.

Employers in the Inland Empire added 3,800 jobs, about 2,800 of which were federal government positions. That region's unemployment rate dipped to 13.9% in May, down from a revised 14.2% in April. That region has lost 35,200 jobs over the year.

In Orange County, the unemployment rate dipped to 9.2% from a revised 9.5% in April as employers added 9,100 jobs. Government accounted for much of...

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bump for unemployment

[Boucheau]

If you want to know if the economy is doing just ask small business people.

I live in Southern California and I have many business clients. Almost all of them are hurting. Almost all of them are in survival mode.

Unless Americans wake up to what’s happening to them and rise up FEROCIOUSLY in resistance, then you had better get used to this.

The people running our country right now are extreme leftists. They DO NOT PREFER CAPITALISM. They DO NOT WANT prosperity—clearly they do not.

[Boucheau]

If the economy is doing better...

[Jack Hydrazine]

Ouch!