Unemployment rates rise slightly in Burbank, Glendale

By Mark Kellam, <i><a href=”mailto:mark.kellam@latimes.com”>mark.kellam@latimes.com</a></i>

July 18, 2014 10:38 AM PT

Unemployment rates in Burbank and Glendale ticked up last month with educational and health services reporting the largest cutbacks across Los Angeles County, according to the latest labor report.

The jobless rates increased by 0.2% in both cities, with Burbank coming in at 6.6% and Glendale reporting a 7.1% rate, according to statistics released Friday by the California Employment Development Department.

Statewide, the unemployment rate was 7.4% last month, down from 7.6% in May and 9% in June 2013.

The jobless rates in the La Crescenta-Montrose area and La Cañada Flintridge edged up by 0.1% in both communities, coming in at 4% and 3.1% respectively.

Mark Kellam

Mark Kellam was city editor of the Glendale News-Press and Burbank Leader. He joined Times Community News in July 2011 as the business-politics reporter and was promoted to city editor in January 2013. Previously, he was an editor at the Los Angeles Daily News and managing editor at Champion Newspapers in Chino, Calif. Prior to that, he was an editor at Amos Suburban Newspapers in Dayton, Ohio, for several years. Kellam holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Indiana University.