California's Unemployment Rate Rises Slightly In June
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California's economy is staying soft into the summer, with the state unemployment rate for June rising slightly even as employers added workers.
The state added 28,800 payroll jobs in June, the state Employment Development Department said Friday.
But a survey of workers -- which is used to calculate the jobless rate but is considered less reliable -- showed 37,000 fewer people employed in California. That helped drive the jobless rate to 11.8 percent, second only to Nevada and up from 11.7 percent in May.
The California rate fell below 12 percent in April for the first time since 2009, but the state has seen weak job growth or job losses since then.
The U.S. unemployment rate climbed to 9.2 percent in June, adding a net of just 18,000 jobs nationwide.
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