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Newly-released numbers from the state's Employment Development Department show that the December unemployment rate in San Bernardino County was 9.7 percent.

The EDD tallied more than 88,000 county residents as being unemployed.

In Riverside County, the unemployment rate was 10. percents. The statewide figure was an unemployment rate of 9.1 percent.

Not surprisingly, EDD statistics show that construction workers took a beating in 2008. The number of people working in construction shrunk by 10.8 percent from December 2007 through December 2008.

Read more at SB Now.

andrew.edwards@inlandnewspapers.com

The Ontario-San Bernardino-Riverside unemployment rate was 9.1 percent in September, according to a recently released report by California's Employment Development Department.

That's down from 9.2 percent in August, and above the year-ago estimate of 6.3 percent.

In September, total nonfarm employment increased by 5,600.

But from September 2007 to September 2008, total nonfarm employment dropped by almost 20,000 jobs -- about 1.6 percent. The local construction sector keeps posting the greatest month-over declines.

The region's unemployment rate was less than 5 percent in October 2006

Read more at The Bizz.

matthew.wrye@inlandnewspapers.com

SACRAMENTO (AP) -- California's jobless rate held steady at 7.7 percent in September, remaining for a second month at its highest level since March 1996, according to the latest state figures released today.

The state's unemployment rate, compiled by the California Employment Development Department, is higher than the national rate, which also was unchanged at 6.1 percent in September.

Despite the state rate leveling off, there's no way of telling yet if unemployment has peaked, said department spokesman Kevin Callori. The state's jobless rate also leveled off last spring before jumping again.

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