Economy

Six students from Yucaipa Christian School have placed third in a regional art contest and will advance to the state finals March 29 at the Riverside Convention Center. Elementary school students Lily Bosse, Cameron Dominguez, Savannah Hewitt, Leo Walt, Saela Wardlow and Joshua Waters competed in the regional round of …

Some good news on the employment front: an estimate 37,400 jobs were created last year in Riverside and San Bernardino counties. That’s almost three times as much as state officials first estimated, according to a report first published in The Press-Enterprise. The 3.1 percent job growth for 2013 came after …

The February report on manufacturing in the Inland Empire is definitely mixed. First, the good news: the purchasing manager’s index for last month was 50.3, the sixth consecutive month that the index was above 50, according to the monthly report by the Institute of Applied Research and Policy Analysis at …

Study by non-profit agency says the two-county region still has to recover most of the jobs it lost during the recession, and that could take a few more years That economic recovery you keep hearing about in the Inland Empire isn’t here yet, and it might not happen for a …

The state legislature today overwhelmingly passed a $687 million drought-relief plan. The plan, which will now go to Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk, redirects money in the state budget and also draws funds from two previously approved bonds, according to a report originally published by Associated Press. Nearly $475 million in …

The Inland Empire has regained about 40,000 of the estimated 147,000 jobs it lost during the economic downturn that started in 2007, including 14,000 jobs added last year, according to a report released Tuesday. But that study -the Los County Economic Development Corporation’s 2014-’15 Economic Forecast & Industry Outlook – …