California Jobless Rate Falls For Fifth Straight Month

By Marc Lifsher, Los Angeles Times
Fri, 01/20/2012 - 9:44am

California's unemployment rate fell to 11.1% in December from 11.3% in November, marking five straight months of declines.

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