Economy

With the economy continuing to improve and port activity up, 2016 looks like it will be a good year for anyone looking for a temporary job during the Christmas shopping season. UPS and Target have already announced they will at least match the number of hires they made one year …

This year’s Route 66 Cruisin’ Reunion attracted more than 150,000 people and pumped upwards of $17 million into the local economy, according to data released Thursday by the event’s organizer. By the time the party ended Sunday, the Cruisin’ Reunion attracted more than 1,000 cars, 50 vendors and had staged …

California added 63,100 non-agricultural jobs during August, a solid number but not enough to change the state’s unemployment rate, which remained at 5.5 percent. The state has added more than 2.3 million jobs since the recession officially ended in February 2010, the Employment Development Department stated in its monthly jobs …

The U.S. economy added 151,000 jobs in August, a respectable number but not enough to move the unemployment rate, which remained at 4.9 percent for the third month in a row. An estimated 7.8 million people were unemployed last month, essentially unchanged from September, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics …

After one of its worst months in recent memory, the Inland Empire’s manufacturing sector came roaring back in August. The regions purchasing managers index for last month was 60, one of the largest indexes in recent memory and a major improvement from the 46.5 that was recorded in July, according …

The study, which was released earlier this year, says the state lost more than 10,000 businesses during the eight-year period that ended in 2015. However, the U.S. Department of Labor says the state’s job count went up during that time. Is California losing jobs in droves to other states as some …