{"id":594136,"date":"2026-04-19T18:46:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/594136\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T18:46:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:46:23","slug":"slo-county-unemployment-rate-declining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/594136\/","title":{"rendered":"SLO County unemployment rate declining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tApril 18, 2026  <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-69761\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/unemployment-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"   \/><\/p>\n<p>By KAREN VELIE<\/p>\n<p>San Luis Obispo County\u2019s unemployment rate fell slightly in February to 4.4%, the state <a href=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/#search\/empoyment\/WhctKLbvNPbhrFNwlTxwdFWTnWCBrqFFKnMvWCbpVVVxgPHgdQdvTcGFcNVgmnMNknnNJcG?projector=1&amp;messagePartId=0.3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Employment Development Department <\/a>reported Friday. During the same time, unemployment rates in California and the United States remained steady.<\/p>\n<p>The county unemployment rate fell from 4.6% in January to 4.4% in February.<\/p>\n<p>During February, job gains were seen in the farm sector which gained 700 jobs and in the hospitality sector which garnered 200 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>In the job losses category, the wholesale and retail sectors each had 100 jobs eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>San Luis Obispo County is ranked eighth out of 58 California counties for lower numbers of unemployed workers. SLO County\u2019s unemployment rate is lower than the national average of 4.7% and the state\u2019s 4.6% rate.<\/p>\n<p>In California, San Mateo County at 3.7% has the lowest unemployment rate and Colusa County comes in on the bottom with an unemployment rate of 18.2%.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 18, 2026 By KAREN VELIE San Luis Obispo County\u2019s unemployment rate fell slightly in February to 4.4%,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-594136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594136","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=594136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}