Good news and bad news for Nevada County’s employment picture. The new numbers are out for April, which show a jobless rate of four percent. That’s better than the statewide average of four-and-a-half percent and the national average of four-point-one percent, but the number is worse than March. Luis Allejo with the State Employment Development Department says the biggest hit was in the ‘Leisure and Hospitality’ sector with a loss of 390 jobs. Allejo says, though, that this isn’t unusual…
Mining, Logging, and Construction saw the biggest increase over the month, at 170 jobs. Allejo says the best news is that the numbers are better than a year ago…
The E-D-D looks at a total labor force in Nevada County, of over 47-thousand people.
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