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The unemployment rate continued to drop in Stanislaus County, according to the latest numbers from the Employment Development Department.
Stanislaus County had an unemployment rate of 6.9 percent in September, down from a revised rate of 8 percent in August. The rate is below the year-ago estimate of 10.3 percent.
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As Stanislaus County residents await the completion of a new Amazon fulfillment center in Turlock, job seekers can apply for some 2,200 open positions at the online seller’s new Stockton facility.
The retail giant is opening a new inbound cross dock (IXD) center in Stockton, at 6001 S Austin Road on the San Joaquin County city’s southeast border.
The new center is expected to open by the end of October, but company officials said hiring is already underway. The new facility is seeking to staff 2,200 part-time and full-time positions.
According to a press release from the company, jobs start at $17.55 per hour and include health benefits, paid time off and paid parental leave.
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In preparation for the upcoming holidays, the Turlock Post Office is looking to hire additional workers as online orders surge.
As preparations for the 2021 winter holidays continue, the U.S. Postal Service is currently hiring more than 40,000 seasonal positions — nine of which are in Turlock. It’s the agency’s peak season for mail and package deliveries, and the already-busy period has been amplified by the pandemic.
While e-commerce was already an expanding industry prior to COVID-19, the virus forced even more shoppers online. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, online sales in 2020 increased 32.4% from 2019 to 2020. E-commerce revenue hit $791.70 billion last year, up from $598.02 billion in 2019 and representing the highest rate of annual online sales growth for which data is available.
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The ranks within the Turlock Fire Department continue to dwindle with three firefighters leaving last week for new positions at other departments.
The recent departures follow the retirement announcement of Interim Fire Chief Gary Carlson and bring the number of firefighters to leave the department to 13 in three years and 23 in the last 10 years.
“We need to stop the bleeding,” said Turlock Firefighters Local #2434 President Chad Hackett about the recent personnel losses.
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The unemployment rate in Stanislaus County dropped during the month of July and continues to be below the year-ago estimate, according to the latest numbers from the Employment Development Department.
The unemployment rate in Stanislaus County in July was at 8.5 percent, down from a revised rate of 8.9 percent in June 2021. It also was below the year-ago estimate of 12.9 percent.
Several sectors posted job gains for the month, with Manufacturing reporting the largest gain. The sector added an estimated 1,800 jobs for the month, with the majority of those coming in food production. Food manufacturing is up by 10.2 percent from the previous year, according to the EDD data.
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California is becoming less equal every day.
The state’s 100 richest residents had $815.5 billion in net worth as of September 2020, up 18% from 2019, according to Forbes.
Yet Rey Justo and his family of six in Sacramento were living between a Honda Pilot and his in-law’s living room.
The top 1% of Californians earned at least $659,000 in 2020.
But Omar Yacoubi was putting in a 12-hour workday driving for Uber in the Bay Area last year after he found himself without a stable gig as a software designer.
“Income inequality has risen sharply in California over the past two decades, increasing faster in the state than in the nation as a whole.” A researcher at the Public Policy Institute of California, Deborah Reed, said that more than two decades ago, in 1999.
In the intervening years, California spent billions to fight poverty. A tech boom led Californians to gain billions in wealth.
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The unemployment rate in Stanislaus County took another dip in May, according to the latest numbers from the Employment Development Department.
The May unemployment rate came in at 8 percent for Stanislaus County, down from a revised rate of 8.6 percent in April and well below the year-ago estimate of 15.6 percent.
The drop in unemployment has largely been fueled by a reopening of the economy and just about every sector finding they need to hire more people.
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Storer Coachways of Modesto had to cut about 400 of its employees when COVID-19 idled the tour bus business last spring.
No problem. They are back at work in a new venture at the company — mobile testing and vaccinations against this very same virus.
Storer is converting some of its 1,000 or so buses to provide these services around California. Thirteen counties so far have a bus in service following the December launch. They are leased and staffed by public and private health care providers.
One bus rolled up to an Imperial County farm to serve migrant workers. Another parked outside the Sonoma Veterans Memorial Hall. Still another serves homeless people in Berkeley.
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Unemployment numbers in Stanislaus County dropped to 8.3% in November, marking another month of decrease since the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
But due to the nature of month-by-month unemployment data, economist Jeff Michael, the director of the Center for Business and Policy Research at the University of the Pacific, warns that what looks like steady recovery may in reality be masking a “stall.”
“Usually unemployment starts to pick back up in the Modesto area for seasonal factors, as the (agriculture) sector starts winding down for the year,” Michael said. “This year, the unemployment rate has declined because we’ve seen people withdraw from the labor force in November at a faster rate than (there has been) employment, and so the unemployment rate is a very deceptive indicator at the moment.”
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The unemployment rate in Stanislaus County recorded a modest decline in October, however, all but two sectors remain far below the employment levels from last year, according to the latest numbers from the Employment Development Department.
Stanislaus County had an October unemployment rate of 9.1 percent, down from a revised rate of 10.1 percent percent in September. The rate is above the year-ago estimate of 5.1 percent.
Most sectors in Stanislaus County were able to add jobs in October, except for a few. Manufacturing recorded the largest loss for the month, with an estimated decline of 1,300 jobs, according to the EDD. The losses were largely from food manufacturing positions, which typically decline as the year comes to a close and harvesting ends.
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