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It continues to be a mixed bag for the California economy. In fact, sometimes the signals are downright confusing.

Payrolls climbed in 30 U.S. states in April, while the unemployment rate dropped in 40, showing the labor market strengthened across the country.

Up and down the Atlantic coast, US ports are abuzz. Dredging machines, tunnel excavators, and highway pavers from Miami to New York are preparing metropolitan economies and their ports for a newly expanded Panama Canal. As the thinking goes, an expanded Canal promises bigger ships, bigger cargo loads–and each metro wants a piece of the bigger business.

California leads the nation in most technology sector rankings compiled by the Washington D.C.-based TechAmerica Foundation.

A new private economic survey suggests California’s economic recovery may be slowing down. The monthly ADP Regional Economic Report found that California only added 2,690 nonfarm private sector jobs in April.

We humans have a history of dividing the world into “us” and “others.” As the son of immigrant parents, I saw firsthand the trepidation of those unready to transcend cultural differences with other Americans.

U.S. builders and the subcontractors they depend on are struggling to hire fast enough to meet rising demand for new homes.

Reader beware: We’re about to delve into numbers – big, abstract numbers, but immensely important numbers as well.

An index aimed at measuring job growth showed prospects dipping in California in the first quarter of 2013.

The California Department of Finance’s demographic unit has calculated that California gained fewer than 300,000 new residents in 2012 for a growth rate of 0.8 percent.

WASHINGTON — Initial jobless claims dropped last week to their lowest level in more than five years, countering recent signals that the economic recovery is slowing.

Most California workers are payroll employees of private businesses, and the rise, fall and slow recovery of that employment during the last decade is laid out in a new Census Bureau report.

California’s labor market picked up steam last month, according to figures released Friday, as the state’s unemployment rate fell to 9.4% and employers added a net 25,500 jobs in March.

Seven states saw their unemployment rates increase in March, countering the trend in most of the nation, the Labor Department said Friday.

Economic growth in the Golden State from 1990 to 2011 outpaced job growth, University of California, Irvine professor David Neumark and PhD candidate Jennifer Muz showed in the study, published in the latest edition of the San Francisco Fed’s Economic Letter.