{"id":78909,"date":"2025-07-20T20:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T20:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/78909\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T20:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T20:51:13","slug":"california-tied-for-highest-unemployment-rate-in-the-country-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/78909\/","title":{"rendered":"California tied for highest unemployment rate in the country \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Making it in the Bay is harder than ever. The latest job numbers show California is now tied with Nevada for the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.4%.<\/p>\n<p>California\u2019s unemployment rate increased only slightly over the past month, but it is well above the national average of 4.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Bernick, an attorney with Duane Morris and the former director of California\u2019s labor department, thinks factors like hiring costs, uncertainty about tariffs, immigration, and even AI may be playing a role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe numbers aren\u2019t showing an increase so much in layoffs, but we are seeing that employers are putting in abeyance or freezing hiring decisions,\u201d said Bernick.<\/p>\n<p>California did see some job gains in areas like private education and health services, but had a net loss of 6,100 jobs in June.<\/p>\n<p>Bernick says it\u2019s a tough time for job seekers. \u201cEspecially here in the Bay Area, and especially for white-collar jobs, it is more competitive than I\u2019ve seen in 47 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the full story from NBC Bay Area\u2019s Alyssa Goard in the video player above.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Making it in the Bay is harder than ever. The latest job numbers show California is now tied&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,276,79,420,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-78909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-jobs","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114887542953422741","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}