Ventura County’s Job Market Languishes
Ventura County’s lackluster job market showed little improvement in October. The unemployment rate was 9.3%, down just slightly from 9.4% in September and exactly the same as a year earlier.
The county has lost 2,900 non-agricultural jobs in the past year, according to the state Employment Development Department. About half the losses were in manufacturing.
In all, there are 356,000 employed workers in the county and 36,400 who are out of work, the department reported.
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