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A California company selling government job listings that were available for free on the Internet was shut down by the Federal Trade Commission, the agency announced yesterday. Since at least 2007, Santa Barbara-based Frontier Publishing, doing business as American Data Group, placed ads in... + read more

California's unemployment rate remains the second-highest in the nation – 12 percent in July – but among some demographic groups, joblessness is even higher.  The unemployment rate among 16- to 19-year-olds in California was 34.2 percent last month, according to the state... + read more

Of the more than 2.1 million jobless Californians, one out of three has been unemployed for a year or more, according to the latest figures from the state Employment Development Department. And as joblessness drags on, unemployment checks run out. About 1.1 million people in the state... + read more

While the Arizona law requiring employers to verify worker authorization has led to fewer illegal immigrants in the state, it has also pushed undocumented workers into informal or underground employment, raising the possibility of other economic and societal costs, according to a report... + read more

As California struggles with one of the highest jobless rates in the country, the state would benefit from creating an earned income tax credit to boost wages and encourage the unemployed to find higher-paying jobs, according to a report released tonight by the Public Policy Institute of California... + read more

Several California metropolitan areas registered among the nation's highest unemployment rates in September, according to figures released yesterday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The El Centro metropolitan area in Imperial County continued to lead the nation with a 30.4 percent... + read more