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AP There's no denying the job market has seen some recovery since the worst of the recession. The official unemployment rate currently stands at 7.3 percent. That's down from 10.0 percent in ...
The camp is significant in the history of California for the migration of people escaping the Dust Bowl. During the 1930s around 400,000 people without jobs migrated from their homes to find a better life in California. These migrants were known by the derogatory term of Okie and were the subject of discrimination from the local population. [5 ...
Issi Romem, an economist at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley said: "...as long as abundant new housing was built to accommodate those drawn to California, housing price growth was limited and the state's allure was channeled into population growth: From 1940 to 1970 California's population grew 242 percent faster than the national pace, while ...
In other words, one third of the people who would be in poverty if welfare programs didn't exist are raised "out" of poverty by welfare programs. [22] About a quarter of that effect (2 percentage points reduction in the CPM poverty rate) is due to CalFresh, and another quarter is due to earned income tax credits (the federal EITC and the new ...
Despite many in the United States still feeling the pinch, there's no denying that the job market is improving. Last week, the number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell to a five-year ...
Discouraged Workers (US, 2004-09) In the United States, a discouraged worker is defined as a person not in the labor force who wants and is available for a job and who has looked for work sometime in the past 12 months (or since the end of his or her last job if a job was held within the past 12 months), but who is not currently looking because of real or perceived poor employment prospects.
Disabled survivors of the California wildfires or any other national emergency can call the disabled-led Disability and Disaster Hotline at 1-800-626-4959 for help.
For many Dust Bowl migrants, work in California's agricultural sector was their primary means of survival. They took on jobs as pea-pickers, cotton pickers, and fruit harvesters, often working long hours for meager pay. The transient nature of the work meant that families had to move frequently, following the harvest seasons across the state.