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Map: Unemployment Drops Statewide and in Pasadena
To see April unemployment rates across the state click on towns on the map below. The light green are the lowest, the dark red, the highest.
Unemployment dipped in California in April from 9.4 percent to 9 percent, according to recently released figures from the California Employment Development Department.
The local economy saw a similar trend, with Pasadena dropping from 7.6 percent to 7 percent from March to April.
The state's non-seasonally adjusted rate was 8.5 percent in April -- seasonal adjustment accounts for seasonal shifts in labor such as increased construction and agricultural work in spring and summer -- only non-seasonally adjusted figures are available for individual cities.
How to Use the Map
You can see how every city in the state fared in April's report, by clicking on it in the above map. The blue cities are within 10 percent of the state average, the light green are have unemployment rates at least 50 percent lower than state average, and darker green cities are between.
Conversely, the bright red cities have unemployment rates at least 50 percent higher than state average and the lighter red cities are between.
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