Gains in public-sector and other jobs largely supported by public money have cloaked a dismal California labor market, which has seen a big decline of private-industry jobs since their post-pandemic ...

Higher education is leading the charge in a region-wide effort to address a projected critical shortage of nurses in southern ...

While California officials boast about the state’s ranking as the world’s fourth-largest economy, the statewide job market continues to be one of the nation’s weakest. With $4.1 trillion in economic ...

California unions maintained 16-18% worker density in 2024 amid national decline. California private sector lost 4.9% of jobs from May to July 2025 amid federal deportation surge. Latino, noncitizen ...

California union members chant “288” before a press conference urging senators to pass the bill Wednesday, June 18, 2025, on the west steps of the Capitol in Sacramento. MOLLY GIBBS [email protected] ...

State-level unemployment claims can provide a real-time measure of national labor market conditions and the overall state of the economy. A rapid and widespread buildup of stress in state labor ...