[Sosfbay-discuss] Unemployment in CA

[Tian Harter]

Some of those California towns listed are in the Central Valley.
What's special about the area is that farm labor jobs are very seasonal.
What are they harvesting in January? Nothing. Well, maybe a few oranges.
What do pickers make in January? Nothing. That ouch's in the statistics.
Definitely people are suffering because of this in Fresno, Visalia,
Stockton, Modesto, Merced, and Yuba City. I don't know about the others.

Edward wrote:
> Unemployment rates can be deceptive, because it only measures the labour
> defined as the employed (both full- and part-time paid jobs) and
> unemployed (those without work and who have been actively looking for a
> job in the past 4 weeks). I am not sure about Detroit, but maybe their
> unemployment rate is lower because people there have given up looking
> for a nonexistent job.
> 
> -edward
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>          The list of the top 379 unemployment metro areas shows a few
>     likely suspects -- Bismarck, Bend, Cheyenne, Amarillo,  Baton
>     Rouge,  Burlington, Portsmouth, Bangor, New Haven, Scranton,
>     Morgantown, Kokomo, La Crosse.
> 
>          What's a big surprise to me is that nine California metro areas
>     have a higher unemployment rate than Detroit.  Of the ten areas
>     nationally with highest unemployment, California owns eight: 
>     Fresno, Visalia,    Hanford, Stockton, Modesto, Merced, Yuba City,
>     and  El Centro.
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>     http://www.bls.gov/web/laummtrk.htm
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