SAN JOSE, Calif.--Jul. 20--Led by a continuing boom in Silicon Valley, California's unemployment rate declined last month to 7.1 percent, its lowest level in 5 1/2 years. SAN JOSE, Calif.--Jul. 20--Led by a continuing boom in Silicon Valley, California's unemployment rate declined last month to 7.1...
SAN JOSE, Calif.--Dec. 20--Santa Clara County's unemployment rate tumbled again in November, to another modern-day record of 2.5 percent. That means that only one of every 40 county residents who wanted to work last month couldn't find a job. SAN JOSE,...
Jun. 6--The national unemployment rate may be rising, but all indications are that the Silicon Valley job market continues to boom. This is good news for workers -- except those whose jobs involve helping other people find work. Jun. 6--The national unemployment rate may...
By Margaret Steen, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 16--Santa Clara County's job market continued its recovery in October, adding 4,300 jobs, the most in that month since 1997. The county's unemployment rate dropped two-tenths of a...
By Chris O'Brien, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 14--Silicon Valley's unemployment rate fell nearly a full percentage point to 5.5 percent in August. Yet the valley also lost 1,500 jobs. The numbers show...
By Chuck Carroll, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 1--Metro San Jose has once again posted the nation's largest year-over-year unemployment rate decrease, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The area's 2.4...
By John Woolfolk, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 10--Santa Clara County added 4,300 jobs last month, marking the biggest June gain since 2000 and signaling that the local economy is slowly but surely coming back. ...
By Dean Takahashi, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--Silicon Valley's job picture continued to brighten in May as Santa Clara County's unemployment rate fell to 5.9 percent and the number of jobs rose by 4,300 compared...
By Margaret Steen, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 5--The economic recovery looks like it's finally taken hold. Friday's strong national employment report was the latest positive sign. And the effects of the turnaround...
By Margaret Steen, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 15--Silicon Valley's job market continued its slow path toward recovery in April, with jobs growing and the unemployment rate falling. But after years of steep job losses, it...
By Margaret Steen, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 8--The U.S. economy added 288,000 jobs in April, suggesting that the economic recovery may at last have found its way to the job market. But it's still not...
By Margaret Steen, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 10--California and Santa Clara County both added jobs in March, but not enough to convince economists that a solid recovery is under way. Santa Clara...
By Margaret Steen, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 3--The nation added jobs in March at the fastest rate in almost four years, signaling hope for Silicon Valley's recovery, economists said. But valley job...
By Margaret Steen, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 17--The most recent government report on jobs and unemployment in Santa Clara County, released Friday, showed both disappointing weaknesses in the local job market and hints of possible...
By Michele Chandler, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 13--Silicon Valley's hard times with job losses aren't over yet. Even as local employers added 1,100 new Santa Clara County jobs in November and the...
By Kristi Heim, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 25--SEATTLE--After 18 months without work, one former technology manager has taken his job search to a new extreme -- an ad campaign on public buses. ...
By Margaret Steen, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 11--Silicon Valley's job market continued to limp along in September. Although Santa Clara County's unemployment rate fell to 7.5 percent from a revised 8 percent in August, the...
By Daniel Vasquez, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 13--Santa Clara County's unemployment rate dropped in August, but reliable signs of a job recovery remained elusive as the county shed 1,700 jobs. The...
By Sue McAllister, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 24--Silicon Valley's economy is still sluggish, and the local unemployment rate hasn't been below 8 percent in 15 months. No one knows when a recovery will happen. But...
By Caille Millner, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 22--Middle-income technology jobs are vanishing from Silicon Valley -- and if San Jose is to have a middle class in the years to come it will have to...
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