California Renews Efforts To Assist Disabled Veterans
California officials are trying to make it easier for veterans coming home to start and build their businesses.
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California officials are trying to make it easier for veterans coming home to start and build their businesses.
Encouraging innovation and job creation were just two of the topics as the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness gathered in Silicon Valley on Tuesday.
Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom is releasing a plan to jumpstart California's economic development and job growth, stepping to the forefront of a vital issue as his first major policy move since he was elected to statewide office.
A review of popular job websites like Monster.com, Careerbuilder.com, and Craigslist.org found hundreds of employers specifically seeking applicants who are "currently employed" or recently employed.
California's economy is staying soft into the summer, with the state unemployment rate for June rising slightly even as employers added workers.
With returning soldiers face high unemployment and the energy industry needing new workers, a nationwide effort is being launched to recruit U.S. veterans for jobs in the energy sector.
Calling it a major change in the history of California's unemployment program, the Employment Development Department is now sending out debit cards instead of traditional checks to people receiving unemployment benefits.
The survey results were based on the responses of 432 CEOs and top executives across the Bay Area.
The unemployment rate in California is still falling, dropping to 11.7 percent in May, but the number of jobs in the state is down too.
Federal officials announced Wednesday that California will receive more than $800 million in funding to help the unemployed as the state struggles to deal with the economy and a huge budget hole.
California's unemployment rate has dropped below 12 percent for the first time since August 2009 -- another positive sign for the nation's economy.
Job seekers who restrict the hunt to a particular industry often overlook organizations that could use their skills, according to recruiters at several large companies.
San Jose's budget woes may already force the city to lay off more than 100 police officers, but proposed cuts could take that number even higher.
California's unemployment rate has dropped to 12 percent, but the number of payroll jobs in the state in March also fell from the previous month.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry and California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom staged something of a bipartisan summit Thursday in Austin, where a delegation from the Golden State came to see how jobs are being created in the Lone Star State.
Despite recent headlines about Oakland's mayor going after San Francisco tech jobs, the mayors of the Bay Area's three largest cities got together to push for a regional approach to attracting jobs.
All Bay Area counties showed decreases in jobless rates in February compared to January's numbers, according to a recent report by the state Employment Development Department.
The economy added 216,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said Friday.
California's unemployment rate has slipped lower for the second month in a row as the state added nearly 100,000 jobs in February. But the employment situation is still worse than the national average.
The comeback of the American auto industry may depend on whether the high tech engineers needed to design cutting edge cars will consider living in Detroit instead of the Bay Area.
Dozens of homeless families have been forced to bide their time on a waiting list at a peninsula shelter that's seen unprecedented demand for services because of layoffs and foreclosures.
The state Employment Development Department on Friday reported that California's jobless rate was 12.4 percent in January. That was down slightly from 12.5 percent in December.
Crews broke ground Thursday on a second tower at Regional Medical Center, a project expected to bring hundreds of medical jobs to an area with the highest unemployment rate in the city.
A group of former grocery store workers in San Jose is filing a lawsuit against a now-defunct chain of supermarkets. The laid off employees claim "Su Vianda" owes them, and the city of San Jose, hundreds of thousands of dollars.
