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Welcome to the Nation's Worst Town for Job Hunters
Jun 15th 2010 – 3:01PM
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EL CENTRO, Calif. (June 15) -- Mark Mendez has always preferred working outdoors -- "man's work," he calls it -- to being in an office, and in April 2007 he landed a pretty good job at a gravel and sand pit about 30 miles west of here in California's southeast corner. Then the housing bubble burst. Here, as elsewhere, the...
Calif. Town Tops Roll Call of Climbing US Jobless Rates
Jun 2nd 2010 – 6:32PM
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SAN DIEGO (June 2) -- The Southern California town of El Centro suffers the worst unemployment rate in the nation, with nearly 28 percent of its work force without a job, the Labor Department announced today. It was the low point of a report that showed jobless rates are up across the U.S. The report on April unemployment...
Background on el centro
El Centro is a city in and county seat of Imperial County, the largest city in the Imperial Valley and the east anchor of the Southern California Border Region, and the core urban area and principal city of the El Centro metropolitan area which encompasses all of Imperial County.
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