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New report: State job losses like 'nothing before seen'

Original post made on May 22, 2020

Statewide unemployment numbers for April spiked higher than projected, jumping an unprecedented 10.2%, according to a state jobs report released Friday. Two Midpeninsula cities also reached double-digits: Atherton's and East Palo Alto.

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Posted by Joseph E. Davis
a resident of Woodside: Emerald Hills
on May 22, 2020 at 6:17 pm

California was an unrelentingly hostile place to run a small business even before the latest economic catastrophe. We can always hope that eventually politicians will wake up to that fact, but I'm not terribly optimistic.

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