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California is the largest state by population, and the largest employer there is the University of California System.
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Shortly after the outbreak of COVID-19, the Census Bureau launched a vast initiative to measure the effects of the disease on Americans. It is called the Household Pulse Survey. So far, the results...
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The COVID-19 pandemic caused unemployment levels not seen since the Great Depression, starting in April last year. By last month, the jobless figure had rebounded to 6.0%, still well above the 3.5%...
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No job faces more consistently noisy working conditions than emergency medical technicians and paramedics.
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El Centro, California, had the highest unemployment rate in February. It was as high as in some years during the Great Depression.
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For the first quarter of 2021, the number of CEOs who have been replaced is down by about 30% compared to last year.
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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are nearly 3 million registered nurses in America. Their mean annual wage is $80,010, which makes nursing among the best-paid jobs in the country....
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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its “The Employment Situation–March 2020”. Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 916,000 from February. The jobless rate was 6.0%....
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The outplacement firm of Challenger, Gray & Christmas on Thursday reported that U.S. firms announced 30,603 job cuts in March, a drop of 86% from the cuts announced in March 2020. The total fell...
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Many American workers struggled to make ends meet in 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped the U.S. economy. About 22 million workers lost their jobs at the beginning of the pandemic, and by...
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The pandemic gutted jobs from hotels, restaurants and cruise ships. Cities and states that rely on these industries have had the highest unemployment.
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The Household Pulse Survey shows that more than a third of Americans work from home or somewhere other than the office. In one western state, nearly half do.
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Unemployment varies widely from place to place. The city with the lowest rate in January was in Utah.
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This poor California city had the highest unemployment rate in January. The jobless rate there was greater than the national rate in some years of the Great Depression.
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The U.S. Senate recently rejected an amendment in the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill that would have raised the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour. This means that millions of Americans will...
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