Jobless rates drop in Glendale, Burbank

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

March 20, 2015 11:26 AM PT

Unemployment rates in Glendale and Burbank declined last month with educational and health services as well as motion picture and sound recording driving most of the job gains across Los Angeles County, according to the latest labor report.

The jobless rate in Glendale decreased by 0.5%, coming in at 7.4%, while it dropped by 0.4% to 6.3% in Burbank, according to statistics released Friday by the California Employment Development Department.

Statewide, the unemployment rate was 6.7%, down from 7% in January, and 8% in February 2013.

The jobless rate in the La Crescenta-Montrose area was 4.3%, a 0.3% decline, and 4.1% in La Cañada Flintridge, a 0.2% drop.

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.