Economy

 Both locally and nationally, the retail industry will apparently hire the same number of people this year that it hired last year. Still, the projected hiring numbers released so far aren’t bad, and the market is a lot better now than it was a few years ago. If the first …

Gas prices continued to drop this week. Statewide, one gallon of regular gasoline sold for an average of $3.04, down from $3.14 last week and $3.49 one month ago, according to AAA’s Daily Fuel Gauge Report. The national average was $2.28, down four cents during the past week and 33 …

California’s unemployment rate fell to 6.1 percent in August as the state added 36,300 new non-farm jobs during the month. Employers in California have added more than two million jobs since the recovery officially began in February 2010, according to data released Friday by the state’s Employment Development Department. The …

UPS plans to hire between 90,000 and 95,000 seasonal workers across the country during the upcoming holiday shopping season, the company has announced. Package volume is expected to increase beginning in November and last through January 2016, according to a company statement released Tuesday. The company will hire full and …

Gasoline prices continued to drop this week, both in California and the Inland Empire. Statewide, the average price of a gallon of regular gasoline as this morning was $3.14, down from $3.26 one week ago and $3.59 last month, according to AAA’s Daily Fuel Gauge Report, an online breakdown of …

At least for now, California motorists are enjoying a break at the gas pump. As of this morning, the average price of a gallon of regular gasoline statewide was $3.26, down from $3.33 one week ago and $3.82 last year at this time, according to AAA’s Daily Fuel Gauge Report. …