California’s jobless rate hits 15.5% in April, 2.M jobs gone

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s unemployment rate soared to 15.5% in April as the nation’s most populous state lost 2.3 million jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic that shuttered most businesses. The state’s unemployment rate increased 10.2 percentage points since March, the largest one month rise since 1976, when the state began using its current […]