why are we arguing about California's unemployment rate? It was about 12.7% overall this past winter. This factored in numbers like 23% in Santa Cruz County and 27% in Imperial County. It also ignored the 98% unemployment rate in undocumented field hands who cannot file for benefits. But then the strawberries picked up. And the artichokes a bit later, und so weider.
But if you drill down, in Santa Clara County and maybe San Mateo and San Francisco as well. the rate was negative in some sectors. Guess which :) If 8% in Marin is correct, that is still a bit high -- the ideal is a bit above 5% -- but shows how you can't just look at statewide statistics. The official word is that you cannot hire an Android developer for love or money, and they don't live in Imperial County. The numbers are from memory but they are pretty close, and definitely show the flavor of the thing. Dana On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Maureen <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 8 percent unemployment in Marin County, where I live. That means that > 92% of the people here are who want to work are working. > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Sam <sammyc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Let me get this straight, you have a job so everything is good? What > > about the 12-15 unemployed in California? Screw them? That doesn't > > include the 15 -20 % that gave up looking or aren't eligible. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:340831 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
