{"id":24403,"date":"2025-07-20T19:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T19:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/24403\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T19:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T19:17:14","slug":"california-tied-for-highest-unemployment-rate-in-the-country-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/24403\/","title":{"rendered":"California tied for highest unemployment rate in the country \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Making it in the Bay is harder than ever. The latest job numbers show California is now tied with Nevada for the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.4%.<\/p>\n<p>California\u2019s unemployment rate increased only slightly over the past month, but it is well above the national average of 4.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Bernick, an attorney with Duane Morris and the former director of California\u2019s labor department, thinks factors like hiring costs, uncertainty about tariffs, immigration, and even AI may be playing a role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe numbers aren\u2019t showing an increase so much in layoffs, but we are seeing that employers are putting in abeyance or freezing hiring decisions,\u201d said Bernick.<\/p>\n<p>California did see some job gains in areas like private education and health services, but had a net loss of 6,100 jobs in June.<\/p>\n<p>Bernick says it\u2019s a tough time for job seekers. \u201cEspecially here in the Bay Area, and especially for white-collar jobs, it is more competitive than I\u2019ve seen in 47 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full story from NBC Bay Area\u2019s Alyssa Goard in the video player above.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Making it in the Bay is harder than ever. The latest job numbers show California is now tied&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,2356,101,134],"class_list":["post-24403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-california","tag-economy","tag-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}