The official numbers show around 1-point-1 million Californians are currently unemployed, which is about half as many as during the depths of the Great Recession. But a new analysis by the Legislature’s budget adviser indicates that so-called “job distress” affects nearly three times as many residents. The official jobless rate is the percentage of the labor force without work. But when you add those who have stopping looking for employment and the underemployed, numbers rise to 2-point-9 million. The Assistant Director of Nevada County’s One-Stop Center, Luis Moreno, says underemployed also refers to a liveable wage…

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Moreno is with “America’s Job Centers of California”, which took over Nevada County’s One-Stop Center last year, and also helps direct centers in five other counties. He says their programs focus on not only on helping people find work, but a job with a future…

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And Moreno says with the economy improving, their job posting boards have been full.