(The Center Square) – California is scrambling to avoid an automatic 3.7% payroll tax increase to cover its projected $23.2 billion debt to the federal government for COVID-era unemployment benefits ...

California’s unemployment rate projected to rise to 6.1% in early 2025. Public sector and healthcare jobs drive growth as AI impacts private hiring. Lower inflation, interest rates and AI demand ...

In response to Texas' mid-decade partisan congressional redistricting, this measure temporarily requires new congressional district maps, as passed by the Legislature in August 2025, to be used in ...

Southern California unemployment slumped to an 11-month high in July as the local job market hit its summer slowdown. My trusty spreadsheet, filled with state job figures released Friday, Aug. 15, ...

California has returned to the top of the national unemployment rankings for the first time in nearly four years. California’s 5.4% rate for June tied Nevada with the No. 1 jobless rate among the 50 ...