Immigration Forum / USA / June 2009

Arnold collects millions of $ every year in bribes from all the companies
that love the cheap labor of illegals.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/state&id=6873746

Calif. unemployment rate hits 11.5 percent
Friday, June 19, 2009 | 6:14 PM

 By Nannette Miranda

SACRAMENTO (KGO) -- Unemployment in California hits a grim record for the
month of May -- rising to 11.5 percent and 69,000 more people join the
jobless ranks.

After the state saw the unemployment rates dip in April, it's back on the
upward trend, hitting 11.5 percent for May, rising a half-percent from
the month before.

A year ago, it was 6.8 percent.

Former coffee sales rep Launa Cornwell has exhausted all of her
unemployment benefits and may be two months away from foreclosure.

"If I don't get a job soon, I'm going to lose everything I've worked for
since I was in college," said Cornwell.

If there is any glimmer of hope from those dismal numbers, the State
Employment Development Department says the job losses seem to have
slowed.

"The job losses over the last three months were still significantly lower
than we had the previous four months. So that's a good trend," said Loree
Levy from the California Employment Development Department.

Over at the Capitol, state workers are protesting Governor
Schwarzenegger's proposal to cut their pay another five percent and
layoff 5,000.

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