Unemployment is ticking up across the South and Central Coasts.
The California Employment Development Department is reporting that the jobless rate in Ventura County was 5% in July, up a half-percent from June. In Santa Barbara County, unemployment increased by 0.4% to 4.7% last month. And, in San Luis Obispo County, jobless numbers also rose. The unemployment rate was 4.2% in July compared to 3.7% a month earlier.
California’s jobless rate rose slightly to 4.8% from June’s rate of 4.7%. For the state, manufacturing lost the most jobs, followed by the mining and logging sector. California still added 82,600 nonfarm payroll jobs.