The latest edition of our list shows many things, but perhaps the most important is which cities have momentum in the job creation sweepstakes. Right now the biggest winners are the metro areas that are adding higher-wage jobs thanks to America’s two big boom sectors: technology and energy.
California’s landmark Environmental Quality Act — the brainchild of Republican lawmakers trying to woo a then-new voting bloc of “environmentalists” — turns 43 this year.
Reader beware: We’re about to delve into numbers – big, abstract numbers, but immensely important numbers as well.
AMERICA’S crisis owes something to baby-boomers’ taste for sun. From the 1970s the share of Americans living in the southern half of the country climbed steadily, from under 40% to more than half by the 2000s. Climate helped motivate the shift (as climate control helped populate the Deep South, almost uninhabitably humid before air-conditioning). Economic opportunity also exerted a strong pull. This flow provided the underlying energy for America’s housing boom and bust.
An index aimed at measuring job growth showed prospects dipping in California in the first quarter of 2013.
A bill that would make some changes to California’s landmark environmental review law moved forward in the state Senate on Wednesday, but Democrats rejected a GOP-backed proposal as “too broad and comprehensive a change.”
Many hurdles remain between here and meaningful reform of the California Environmental Quality Act, namely the obstacle that a Democrat-led state Legislature is bound to face when it defies labor unions. But state Senate leader Darrell Steinberg’s bill to modernize CEQA has taken a step toward passage by winning approval from the Senate Environmental Quality Committee.
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.
In response to an embarrassing six-week queue of business filings, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a measure today that immediately sends $1.6 million to the California secretary of state’s office to relieve the backlog.
Company: Raytheon Co.CA Net Job Gain/Loss: -170Reason: Closure , Move Out of StateCity/Region Losing Jobs: El Segundo, CACity/Region Gaining Jobs: McKinney, TXNotes: Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems moving HQ; the 170 jobs have an average salary of $250,000
Efforts to modify California’s four decades old environmental protection law are still moving forward at the state Capitol, though it’s clear that there remains a healthy dose of skepticism about the end result.
Company: Sutter HealthCA Net Job Gain/Loss: -79Reason: LayoffCity/Region Losing Jobs: Burlingame, CANotes: Story describes cuts in three different areas in CA with specific job loss figures
Company: Sutter HealthCA Net Job Gain/Loss: -79Reason: LayoffCity/Region Losing Jobs: Burlingame, CANotes: Story describes cuts in three different areas in CA with specific job loss figures
Company: Sutter HealthCA Net Job Gain/Loss: -54Reason: LayoffCity/Region Losing Jobs: Oakland, CANotes: Story describes cuts in three different areas in CA with specific job loss figures