Posted on 09/17/2010 11:53:12 AM PDT by Nachum
California lost 33,500 jobs in August, marking the third straight month of payroll cuts and pushing the unemployment rate up to 12.4%. That number of job losses is more than the revised 22,900 jobs cut from payrolls in July, according to data released Friday from the Employment Development Department. There were 2.3 million unemployed Californians in August. Get a daily snapshot of market numbers and trends, delivered right to your mobile phone. Text BUSINESS to 52669. Construction, manufacturing, financial activities, government, leisure and hospitality, trade, transportation and utilities lost jobs over the month. Government has lost 47,700 jobs over the year.
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[shrug] I guess they’ll have to raise taxes.
As government multiplies like jack rabbits and it’s salaries sky rocket obscenely!
So the “U6” is probably 20%?
Is this just citizens or are they counting the Mexicans too? If so, they must be giving the Mexs unemployment.
In the meantime I've tried construction, appraising etc. Even worked a while in a machine shop.
And I have an advanced degree.
Its getting pretty discouraging, and more so because the bureaucratic parasites in local & state government don't seem any closer to understanding how they are destroying the economy than they did 3 years ago.
I know, just give them all government jobs!
Start your own business.
I got out of the military and a sports career and couldn’t find a decent job as an engineer (which I was) because I had not practicd as an engineer and was some time from school.
So I bought worn-out drilling rig and went to work for my neighbor, using some guys I knew from the gym as my co-roughnecks.
Nearly died a couple times, but now I’m well-off.
Yeah, that'll work!
I moved to Phoenix for a job this year ... I will not be looking back
However, I've got another idea I'm gonna give a try - if the ol' chassis will hold out.
Luckily the wife is doing well, despite the current crop of clowns in Sacto & DC.
Don’t worry. The green jobs are right around the corner. There will also be a lot of jobs coming as a result of the multi billion dollar bonds that California issued for fetal stem cell research. If that is not enough the bullet train will create even more jobs. In addition to these new economy jobs there is always the marijuana industry. Trust Arnold! /s
Oh, I never said it was easy.
It’s ALWAYS more work than it seems at first.
Labor unions, liberals, and illegals have run the state of California into the abyss.
Just another 87.6% and you’ll achieve eutopia, California. You’ll all be lying around in the sun just like the Eloi. The women will all look just like Yvette Mimeaux, and the men like Rod Taylor. It’ll be terrific, you’ll love it.
Question: How do you find someone with a master’s degree in english lit in California?
Answer: Sit in a restaurant and say “Waiter!”
I actually went to a hamburger joint in Santa Cruz that was like that. Place seemed to be staffed exclusively by lesbians with PMS. A Hamburger and fries cost about $15. I later heard it referred to as the “attitude tax.” I’m not sure whether the term applies to the attitude, the price, or the combination of the two.
It kind of seemed like the people who worked in the place didn’t like hamburgers, didn’t like meat itself, and didn’t like the people who came in to buy hamburgers.
From one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation to this abomination.
Amozon warehouse in Fernley, Nevada is paying over $15 an hour starting wage for workers. Don’t get benefits, but they are working 50 hours a week right now.
Cost of housing- to buy or rent- isn’t bad. Can get a 1700 sq ft house on 1/3 acre or more for about $160,000.
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