El Dorado County highest Jobless Rate in Region

Education and health services boosted payrolls by 4,400 jobs, or 4.3 percent, in the last 12 months. That helped reduce the region’s unemployment rate from 11.5 percent in May 2011.

The biggest losers by percentage included construction, down 3,300 jobs, or 9.2 percent; publishing, a 6.9 percent decrease; and city government, down 5 percent...

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