Unemployment rate ticks up slightly

By Mark Kellam

Jan. 22, 2016 1:30 PM PT

Unemployment rates rose slightly last month in Glendale and Burbank, according to the latest labor report.

The jobless rates in both cities increased by 0.1%, coming in at 4.8% in Burbank and 5.6% in Glendale, according to statistics released Friday by the California Employment Development Department.

The state’s unemployment rate was 5.8% last month, an uptick from 5.7% in November, but a significant improvement from 7.1% in December 2014.

In La Cañada Flintridge, the jobless rate edged up to 3.1%, a 0.1% rise, while it remained steady at 3.2% in the La Crescenta-Montrose area.

Mark Kellam, mark.kellam@latimes.com

Twitter: @LAMarkKellam

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.