{"id":990,"date":"2016-08-25T14:36:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T21:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiduciarydutiesblog.com\/?p=990"},"modified":"2016-08-25T14:36:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T21:36:22","slug":"fresno-county-unemployment-rate-2006-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"Fresno County Unemployment Rate 2006-2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This chart shows the unemployment rate in Fresno County (on a monthly basis) from 2006 to 2016.\u00a0 It is based on the official data compiled by the California Economic Development Department. (click to enlarge)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fiduciarydutiesblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Fresno-County-Unemployment-Rate-per-EDD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-991\" src=\"http:\/\/fiduciarydutiesblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Fresno-County-Unemployment-Rate-per-EDD.jpg\" alt=\"Fresno real estate lawyer\" width=\"500\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some points of interest:<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf The highest monthly unemployment rate was 18.4% in February 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf The lowest monthly unemployment rate was 6.4% in September 2006.<\/p>\n<p>\u25cfThe President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco says that his goal is an unemployment rate of 4.9%, so we have a long ways to go in Fresno County.<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf The unemployment rate touches its lowest level on an annual basis each September (not surprisingly corresponding with harvest season).<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf I read a report stating that Fresno County had experienced 59 consecutive months of a decrease in the unemployment rate.\u00a0 That report is not supported by the data.<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf How does the decrease in migrant farm labor affect the Fresno County numbers?\u00a0 Hard to tell.\u00a0 Many reports say that the number of migrant farm workers has decreased in the past decade.\u00a0 Yet Fresno County&#8217;s unemployment rate in 2016 is much higher than it was in 2006.\u00a0 Fewer migrant workers but higher unemployment?\u00a0 Does not make intrinsic sense.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov\/data\/unemployment-and-labor-force.html\">link for the source data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This chart shows the unemployment rate in Fresno County (on a monthly basis) from 2006 to 2016.\u00a0 It is based on the official data compiled by the California Economic Development Department. (click to enlarge) Some points of interest: \u25cf The highest monthly unemployment rate was 18.4% in February 2010. \u25cf The lowest monthly unemployment rate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}