California jobless rate dips half-percentage point to 6.5%
California jobless rate dips half-percentage point to 6.5%
By Don Thompson | The Associated Press
California’s unemployment rate dipped a half-percentage point in December as the most populous state added 50,700 nonfarm jobs, accounting for more than a quarter of the nation’s 199,000 job growth for the month, according to new data released Friday.
The state has now regained nearly 72% of the 2.7 million jobs it lost in the early months of the pandemic…