Local jobless rates climb in July

By Mark Kellam

Aug. 19, 2011 12 AM PT

Local unemployment figures continued to climb in July.

In Glendale, the unemployment rates rose to 11.6%, up from 10.8% in June. The rate in Burbank jumped to 10.8% from 10.1% the month prior, according to the state Economic Development Department.

Both rates were lower than the state’s 12% unemployment rate.

In Pasadena, the jobless rate was 10.2%.

Employment in the motion picture industry increased another 1% in July, following the same percentage hike in June.

In La Crescenta-Montrose, the unemployment rate increased to 6.6% from 6.1% in June, while La Cañada Flintridge reported a 5.2% rate, a rise from 4.8%.

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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.