BUSINESS NOTES : UNEMPLOYMENT RATE HOLDS STEADY IN L.A.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services SACRAMENTO - The unemployment rate for Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County was 5.6 percent in August, the same as July, and better than the estimated 6.6 percent in August 1998, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. figures released Friday. The number of jobless job·less adj. 1. Having no job. 2. Of or relating to those who have no jobs. n. (used with a pl. verb) Unemployed people considered as a group. Used with the. people dropped by about 5,000 during the month to 258,000, while the county's civilian labor force shrank shrank v. A past tense of shrink. shrank Verb a past tense of shrink shrank shrink by 10,000 to 4.65 million, the state Employment Development Department reported. Most sectors recorded employment gains for the month, but those were largely offset by declines in government, manufacturing and mining, the EDD's Bill Freed said. The motion picture sector recorded some of the strongest growth, adding 7,600 jobs. The business services sector grew by 2,800 jobs, while the number of jobs in wholesale and retail trade grew by 2,900. |
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