Sunday, September 9, 2012

Report: California lost 42,000 industrial jobs in last year - San Francisco Business Times:

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California has been losing factories and manufacturin jobs for more thanfive years. The previous year, whicyh ended February 2008, Californis lost 564 such companiesand 16,055 In the year ended Februaryu 2007, the state lost 1,525 plantzs and 24,266 jobs. Evanston, Ill.-bases MNI reports that Californiahas 26,376 manufacturing 2,264 industrial distributors and 1.6 million industrial Most of those workers — 1 million of them — are in Southernh California, while about 590,000 are in Norther n California, with more than half of those in Silicon Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose and Santa Clara rank high in numbers of industriap jobs.
California has about 13 percenyt of the electronics manufacturers in theUnitedf States, with 255,708 people working in that Hard hit industries in the state include rubberf and plastics; stone, clay and glass; and printing and publishing, which was affectedx by the closure of a factory in Food products lost the fewest That industry employs 165,572 people in California. MNI has been publishinf directories and databases of manufacturing businessessince 1912.

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