As the unemployment rate ticked slightly upward, California added only 3,000 net jobs in the first month of the year.
Workers from Access Limited Construction put up barricades in February after a mudslide closed Topanga Canyon Boulevard in Topanga.
California added only 3,000 net jobs in the first month of the year as the unemployment rate ticked slightly upward. The slight increase over December 2018 brings the state’s total number of nonfarm payroll jobs to 17.3 million, according to the California Employee Development Department. Last year, the state’s job marketThe state unemployment rate in January was 4.2%, up from a revised 4.1% in December, the department said.
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