A separate survey of joblessness showed that California’s unemployment rate was 12.2% in September, down from a revised 12.3% in August. The unemployment rate in September 2008 was 7.8%.
“It is discouraging,” said Esmael Adibi, an economist at Chapman University. “We want to see job losses go down and the pace slow down, but we didn’t see it.”
California’s unemployment rate is well above the national rate of 9.8%.
The state’s job losses were especially pronounced in construction, which lost 14,100 jobs over the month, and government, which lost 12,700.
