California’s unemployment rate rises to the highest level in the U.S.

California is not all right

Despite stubbornly high inflation and record-high credit card debt, the economy added 2.7 million jobs last year while unemployment hovered just below 4%. But not all states did as well. California, the gem of Democratic uniparty governance, added just 154,000 jobs, and joblessness stagnated above 5%. While states such as Florida and Texas grew their workforce by 3.4% and 3.3%, respectively, California’s grew by just 0.87%. All this was while th…

Day Around the Bay: California Now Has the Highest Unemployment Rate Out of All the U.S. States

Federal data released Friday shows that California has the highest unemployment rate in the country, although San Francisco is still slightly below the national average. In February, California saw a rise in its unemployment rate to 5.3% — a 0.1 percentage point increase that meant we overtook Nevada, which previously held the record. [Chronicle]Mayor London Breed made good on her promise to send Dungeness crab to the mayor of Kansas City Mayor …

California's unemployment rate is the highest in the nation. Slower job growth is to blame

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California's unemployment rate is now the highest in the country, reaching 5.3% in February following new data that revealed job growth in the nation's most populous state