California’s official unemployment rate — the percentage of jobless workers among the state’s labor force — remained unchanged in September at 5.3%.
That doesn’t sound alarming, unless one dives more deeply into the data.
For one thing, it means that slightly more than a million California adults who say they want to work can’t find jobs, 64,100 more than a year prior, according to California’s Employment Development Department. California’s jobless rate is consistently among the highest in the nation…