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The unemployment rate fell in April across the Coachella Valley, Inland Empire and California, state officials reported Friday.
Proposed regional centers designed to help foreigners invest in businesses across Riverside County through the federal EB-5 Visa program face a yearlong application bottleneck, so county officials are asking a congressional delegation to see what can be done to streamline the process.
Officials are working to make the valley attractive to cutting-edge businesses with higher-paying jobs.
During a recent tour of CareFusion Corp.'s manufacturing plant in Palm Springs, vice president and general manager Kevin Ketzel had an opportunity to meet some of the company's second-generation workers.
Concerns of a potential farm labor shortage are prompting San Joaquin Valley growers to boost the wages they pay to farmworkers.
The number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits fell by 4,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 323,000, a five-year low. Layoffs have returned to pre-recession levels, a trend that could lead to more hiring.
The U.S. economy showed last month why it remains the envy of industrialized nations: In the face of tax increases and federal spending cuts, employers added a solid 165,000 jobs in April — and the unemployment rate dropped to a four-year low of 7.5 percent.
Initial claims for unemployment benefits fell 16,000 to 339,000 for the week ended April20, the Labor Department said Thursday. It's the second-lowest level in five years.
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