Riverside has been named one of the best cities in the United States in which to find a job, a report released Monday stated. Based on several factors – favorable job market, salary, work-life balance, job security and possibilities for advancement – Riverside ranked 13th among the top 25 cities …
Read More »Local manufacturing still growing
Inland Empire manufacturing continued to grow during April, although not at the same pace that it grew in March. The region’s purchasing managers index last month was 56.8 percent, down from 62.4 in March, according to data released Monday by the Institute of Applied Research and Policy Analysis at Cal …
Read More »State unemployment drops below five percent
California’s unemployment rate dropped below five percent in March, the first time in more than 10 years it has reached that benchmark, according to data released Friday. The state added 19,300 non-agricultural jobs during the third month of the year, causing the unemployment rate to fall to 4.9 percent, the …
Read More »Inland Empire post solid job gains
The Inland Empire posted some of the largest job gains in the United States from 2014 to 2105, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Riverside County’s employment rate rose 4.9% during that time to a total of 540,169 workers, according to the bureau’s annual County Business Patterns …
Read More »U.S. job growth slows
U.S. economy added 98,000 jobs March, well below the 200,000 that were added in January and again in February, according to data released Friday. At the same time, the national jobless rate fell to 4.5 percent, its lowest point in nearly 10 years, while wages continued to grow, the U.S. …
Read More »Local manufacturing back on track
The Inland Empire’s manufacturing sector is growing again. The region’s purchasing managers index for March was 62.4, up from 58.6 in February and the third consecutive month that number as been above 50, according to data released Monday by the Institute of Applied Research and Policy Analysis at Cal State …
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