CA’s February 2010 unemployment: steady at 12.5%
The California Employment Development Department (EDD) released its February report last Friday, March 26. Nonfarm payroll jobs declined by 20,400 during February. The U.S. unemployment rate was also steady in Februaery, at 9.7%.
In February of 2009, the unemployment rate for California was 10.2%, as derived from a federal survey of 5,500 California households. The number of unemployed people in California was 2,274,000, which is UP by 5,000 during February and up by 406,000 as compared with February of last year.
The EDD report also broke down the statistics by job category:
In the detailed tables of data that accompany EDD employment reports, there were 27 California counties with 15% unemployment or greater. Colusa County topped the list with 27.6% unemployment.
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