It’s still not exactly a good number, but Humboldt County’s unemployment level dropped half a point last month to 10.8 percent. We did it by adding 600 industry jobs for the second straight month, according to data compiled by Dennis Mullins, a research analyst with the Labor Market Information Division in Eureka.
The most growth occurred in manufacturing, government and leisure & hospitality, each of which added roughly 200 jobs. Humboldt improved from 18th to 16th in the county rankings statewide (out of 58 total). With the exception of Mendocino County, which has a nearly identical figure (10.6 percent), our neighbors aren’t doing so hot. Del Norte County has 12.8 percent unemployment; Siskiyou is at 16.4; Trinity is a whopping 17.9; and Shasta is 14.7.
Meanwhile, California as a whole lost more than 29,000 jobs last month and now has the second-highest unemployment rate in the country (11.7 percent) — behind only Nevada (12.1).
This article appears in How Does Your Garden Grow?.
Makes me wonder… how many of these “new” jobs are actually summer jobs created by tourism? How many are “new” because they used to be filled by for the summer?
Poor California…
Looks like ICE needs to raid Sun Valley again to have a good month of job number increases!