CA jobless rates are falling?

Let there be no doubt that unemployment in California remains extremely high. But a Labor Department report out this morning finds that for a bunch of cities the jobless rate actually fell in August from July. That includes El Centro, the perennial disaster area for employment, which dropped to 30.4 percent from 32.1 percent the previous month. Not much of a decline, but I'm just saying... Some other California metro areas:

Bakersfield-Delano -- 15.3 percent, down from 15.9 percent

Fresno -- 15.4 percent, down from 16.1 percent

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana -- 12.1 percent, down from 12.4 percent

Modesto -- 16.4 percent, down from 17.5 percent

Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura -- 11.2 percent, down from 11.3 percent

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario -- 14.8 percent, down from 15.1 percent

San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos -- 10.6 percent, down from 10.9 percent

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont -- 10.6 percent, down from 10.7 percent

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara -- 11.2 percent, down from 11.5 percent


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