The unemployment rate in the City of Santa Clarita has experienced a 144.8 percent increase in unemployment since January 2020, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). In October 2020, Santa Clarita reported an unemployment rate of 10.7 percent, which while down from the pandemic peak of 20.3 percent in April 2020, is still significantly higher than ...

Santa Clarita unemployment growth has been ranked 17th highest in the United States as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, officials said Wednesday.  In order to identify where workers have been most affected by the coronavirus pandemic, WalletHub, a personal finance website, compared 180 cities based on increases in unemployment.  The data was used to rank the most impacted cities ...

California unemployment recipients are set to receive an additional $600 a week after a federal bill was passed, officials said Friday. Governor Gavin Newsom announced the new rollout as part of the federal CARES Act, the stimulus bill passed by Congress in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Workers on unemployment are set to receive the additional $600 per week on ...

Courtesy Leon Worden | SCVNews.com Holiday hiring helped hold Santa Clarita’s unemployment rate at 4.5 percent in November, even with October. The real story is in the comparison to last November’s 5.7 percent. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. The biggest year-over-year difference across Los Angeles County was the 22,900 new positions that ...

Courtesy Leon Worden | SCVNews.com Santa Clarita’s year-over-year jobless rate keeps getting better. Just 5 percent of Santa Claritans were unemployed in June, an improvement of 1.2 points over the June 2013 rate of 6.2 percent – which was already a 0.6 percent improvement over June 2012 when 6.8 percent of Santa Claritans were standing in the unemployment line.   ...