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Map: Ca. Unemployment Rate Drops in May, Stable in Glendora

To see May unemployment rates across the state click on towns on the attached map. The light green are the lowest, the dark red, the highest.

Reported by editors Dan Abendschein and Renee Schiavone:

Unemployment dipped in California in May from 9 percent to 8.6 percent, according to figures released Friday by the California Employment Development Department.

L.A. County saw a slight smaller dip from 9.9 percent in April to 9.6 in May, though Glendora's lower-than-average non-seasonally adjusted jobless rate of 4.8 percent remained the same from April to May. 

The state's non-seasonally adjusted rate was 8.1 percent in May- seasonal adjustment accounts for seasonal shifts in labor such as increased construction and agricultural work in spring and summer - only non-seasonally adjusted figures are available for individual cities.

How to Use the Map

You can see how every city in the state fared in May's report, by clicking on it in the above map.  The blue cities are within 10 percent of the state average, the light green are have unemployment rates at least 50 percent lower than state average, and darker green cities are between.

Conversely, the bright red cities have unemployment rates at least 50 percent higher than state average and the lighter red cities are between.



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