San Bernardino County unemployment at 9.7 percent
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 10.4 percent.
The statewide, seasonally-adjusted figure was an unemployment rate of 9.1 9.3 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.
Check out the EDD's release for more numbers.
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I have recently lost my job and I make up one of these 9.7 percent. I read in the press enterprise today that SB City is paying for a police captain that spends his time playing jokes on the officers by going through their lockers and wetting their personal affects. Why are we as residents paying for this? Has this man been asked to resign? And, are you following this story? Cut the waste in the City government and at least knock my sales tax down.