UCLA Anderson Forecast
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Jerry Nickelsburg
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Making L.A.: Manufacturing Southern California still has more manufacturing jobs that almost any place in country. The biggest industries are tourism and entertainment, but the region is significant when it comes to making stuff like transportation equipment and apparel. Today in our series “Making LA,” we look at the state of making things in Southern California.
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Unemployment and African Americans National unemployment is at nine percent, but among black Americans it's much higher. For blacks in California, it's 19.3 percent. The Congressional Black Caucus has been talking about job creation and the economy at job fairs and town halls in five cities around the country.
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UCLA Forecast Predicts Slow Job Growth through 2012 Unemployment in California's at record heights, but it does seem to have leveled off. What's predicted for the next couple of years is a reminder: Economics is the Dismal Science. Jerry Nickelsburg is Senior Economist at the UCLA Anderson Forecast.
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Will the Recession Push State Governments to Shut Down? The recession is wreaking havoc with state governments all over the country by vastly reducing the revenues they depend on from taxes on property, sales and income. Last night, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Connecticut , North Carolina , Ohio and California failed to pass balanced budgets by the start of the fiscal year.
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Will the Recession Force State Government Shutdowns? States all over the country are losing revenue. Last night, North Carolina and five other states failed to resolve disputes over taxes and spending in time for the start of the new fiscal year. Without balanced budgets, Pennsylvania and Illinois face partial shutdowns; Connecticut and Ohio are barely limping along.
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California Unemployment Fund out of Money Unemployment in Los Angeles County has doubled to 9.9% in the past year. It’s almost that high statewide. But the state’s unemployment insurance trust fund is about to run out of money . In 2001, benefits were expanded, but not the tax base that pays for them.
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No end in sight More than 800,000 federal employees continue to go without pay in what could soon be the longest government shutdown yet.