硅谷四月份的失业率降低了0.2%， 至10.9%， 但同时失去了5200个工作。
这说明有很多失业人口在四月份离开了硅谷，从而降低了硅谷的失业率。
我有两个同事失业后就离开了硅谷，为降低硅谷的失业率作了贡献。
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Unemployment rate dips slightly in valley, to 10.9 percent, in April
By Pete Carey
Mercury News
Posted: 05/22/2009 10:41:00 AM PDT
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* Full coverage of the economic crisis, including special reports and databases
For the first time in a year, Silicon Valley's jobless rate dropped slightly in April, but there wasn't much to cheer about as the region lost 5,200 more jobs, the state Employment Development Department reported Friday.
Economists said the slight decline from a revised 11.1 percent in March to 10.9 percent in April was not as important an indicator of the region's economic condition as the loss of jobs. The jobless rate is still more than double what it was a year ago, and more than 100,000 people in the valley are now unemployed and looking for work.
"The economy did not get better in April, it got worse in Silicon Valley," said Stephen Levy of the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy. "We lost jobs in April." Technology is now in a full-fledged recession, Levy said.
California's jobless rate also fell, from 11.2 percent in March to 11 percent in April, but the state lost an additional 63,700 jobs — the most in the nation, according to a separate report from the U.S. Department of Labor — and up from 62,000 lost in March.
It's way too early to throw an end-of-recession party, economists said.
John Shoven, director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, said the job-shedding will most likely continue for six to nine months. "I don't think the increase in unemployment is over," Shoven said.
Shoven predicted that unemployment will come down in 2010 with a return to economic
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growth. On a positive note, he said, "It certainly is a good sign that things are getting worse a lot slower than they were."
The nudge downward in the valley's unemployment rate "is a typical seasonal thing for our area," said EDD labor market analyst Janice Shriver. "The rate goes down between March and April," she said.
The unemployment rate dropped largely because of a decline of 7,700 people in the "total labor force," defined as people working or seeking work, EDD figures showed. The rate is calculated as a percentage of that figure.
The decline could reflect people leaving the area, returning to school or simply becoming discouraged and abandoning the job hunt.
"Whatever the reason, it's part of a trend," said Michael Bernick, a former EDD director and a San Francisco labor lawyer. In the early 2000s, the valley had a labor force of more than 1 million, he noted.
The valley's employment rate is the second-highest since the state began keeping data in its current format in 1990, and is more than double what it was in April 2008, when the jobless rate sank to 5 percent, before beginning a long climb to where it is today.
The valley now has 881,500 jobs, compared with 886,700 in March. It was the seventh consecutive month of year-over-year job losses for the Santa Clara and San Benito counties area covered by the EDD data. During the past 12 months, total employment in the valley dropped by 39,800 jobs, or 4.3 percent, the EDD reported.
Taken separately, the unemployment rate was 14.9 percent in San Benito County and 10.8 percent in Santa Clara County.
Overall, 1,300 manufacturing jobs were lost last month, more than two-thirds of them in the computer and electronics sector. Leisure and hospitality shed 1,200 jobs, in a month when it had averaged an 800-job increase for the past 19 years, the EDD reported.
The downturn in the rate in April, whether a glimmer or a mirage, is the first good news from the valley's labor market in a year of steadily rising rates.
By September of last year, unemployment in Santa Clara and San Benito counties had reached 6.4 percent. From there it soared to 9.5 percent in January and to its peak so far during this recession of 11.1 percent in March.
The March rate was reported to be 11 percent last month; on Friday the EDD revised the rate upward slightly.
Contact Pete Carey at pcarey@mercurynews.com.
这说明有很多失业人口在四月份离开了硅谷，从而降低了硅谷的失业率。
我有两个同事失业后就离开了硅谷，为降低硅谷的失业率作了贡献。
http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_12429381
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Unemployment rate dips slightly in valley, to 10.9 percent, in April
By Pete Carey
Mercury News
Posted: 05/22/2009 10:41:00 AM PDT
Economic crisis
* Full coverage of the economic crisis, including special reports and databases
For the first time in a year, Silicon Valley's jobless rate dropped slightly in April, but there wasn't much to cheer about as the region lost 5,200 more jobs, the state Employment Development Department reported Friday.
Economists said the slight decline from a revised 11.1 percent in March to 10.9 percent in April was not as important an indicator of the region's economic condition as the loss of jobs. The jobless rate is still more than double what it was a year ago, and more than 100,000 people in the valley are now unemployed and looking for work.
"The economy did not get better in April, it got worse in Silicon Valley," said Stephen Levy of the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy. "We lost jobs in April." Technology is now in a full-fledged recession, Levy said.
California's jobless rate also fell, from 11.2 percent in March to 11 percent in April, but the state lost an additional 63,700 jobs — the most in the nation, according to a separate report from the U.S. Department of Labor — and up from 62,000 lost in March.
It's way too early to throw an end-of-recession party, economists said.
John Shoven, director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, said the job-shedding will most likely continue for six to nine months. "I don't think the increase in unemployment is over," Shoven said.
Shoven predicted that unemployment will come down in 2010 with a return to economic
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growth. On a positive note, he said, "It certainly is a good sign that things are getting worse a lot slower than they were."
The nudge downward in the valley's unemployment rate "is a typical seasonal thing for our area," said EDD labor market analyst Janice Shriver. "The rate goes down between March and April," she said.
The unemployment rate dropped largely because of a decline of 7,700 people in the "total labor force," defined as people working or seeking work, EDD figures showed. The rate is calculated as a percentage of that figure.
The decline could reflect people leaving the area, returning to school or simply becoming discouraged and abandoning the job hunt.
"Whatever the reason, it's part of a trend," said Michael Bernick, a former EDD director and a San Francisco labor lawyer. In the early 2000s, the valley had a labor force of more than 1 million, he noted.
The valley's employment rate is the second-highest since the state began keeping data in its current format in 1990, and is more than double what it was in April 2008, when the jobless rate sank to 5 percent, before beginning a long climb to where it is today.
The valley now has 881,500 jobs, compared with 886,700 in March. It was the seventh consecutive month of year-over-year job losses for the Santa Clara and San Benito counties area covered by the EDD data. During the past 12 months, total employment in the valley dropped by 39,800 jobs, or 4.3 percent, the EDD reported.
Taken separately, the unemployment rate was 14.9 percent in San Benito County and 10.8 percent in Santa Clara County.
Overall, 1,300 manufacturing jobs were lost last month, more than two-thirds of them in the computer and electronics sector. Leisure and hospitality shed 1,200 jobs, in a month when it had averaged an 800-job increase for the past 19 years, the EDD reported.
The downturn in the rate in April, whether a glimmer or a mirage, is the first good news from the valley's labor market in a year of steadily rising rates.
By September of last year, unemployment in Santa Clara and San Benito counties had reached 6.4 percent. From there it soared to 9.5 percent in January and to its peak so far during this recession of 11.1 percent in March.
The March rate was reported to be 11 percent last month; on Friday the EDD revised the rate upward slightly.
Contact Pete Carey at pcarey@mercurynews.com.
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