A new jobs report reveals that California’s unemployment rate in April was 5.3% for the third month in a row.
California possesses the highest unemployment rate in the country, with the national average being 3.9%. Washington, D.C., was not far behind California, with an unemployment rate of 5.2%, and Nevada was at 5.1%.Sacramento Bee
For every 140 unemployed workers, there were 100 job openings in March. Less than two years ago, there were about two job openings for every unemployed person. In the past 12 months, the number of unemployed workers reached 164,000. As the state deals with the highest unemployment rate in the nation, it is also struggling to deal with a debt of about $21 billion incurred to help cover the costs of unemployment benefits.
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