12/02/2024

California’s workforce takes a dive

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

Each month, state and federal governments release the latest employment statistics and everyone zeroes in on the unemployment rate as an economic benchmark.

That rate, however, is derived from two numbers – the “labor force” of potential workers and the number who are jobless.

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