The San Diego Union Tribune reported that “California’s jobless rate surged to 7.7 percent last month, the highest level since 1996, as the economic spasms from the housing bust continued. More than 1.4 million workers were unemployed – up 61,000 from July and 413,000 from a year ago, the state Employment Development Department reported yesterday. Led by losses in construction and real estate, payrolls were down 72,700 jobs from a year earlier. San Diego County performed better than the state. August unemployment locally dipped slightly to 6.4 percent, but the rate was significantly higher than last August’s 4.8 percent.” (Entire story here.)

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