Labor Market

Wendy Greuel Heads To Hollywood To Challenge Eric Garcetti's Turnaround Claim

Wendy Greuel attacked Eric Garcetti on his home turf today, challenging his jobs figures and blaming him for a recent spike in rapes, which she called the "dirty little secret" of Hollywood."It's one of the most dangerous places for women in the city, something Mr. Garcetti seems to be ignoring," Gr ... More >>

Gray Davis, David Fleming Defend "LA 20/20" to Criticism the Group is Light on High-Tech, Hollywood or Entrepreneurs

Is LA 20/20, the high-powered committee that includes former Gov. Gray Davis and was selected by former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Mickey Kantor and multimillionaire Austin Beutner to find ways to bring economic health to L.A., a bit light on entrepreneurs and others who can create jobs? Jack Hump ... More >>

Antonio Villaraigosa's $30,000 a Day Trip to Asia: Another Empty Gesture as 13 Percent Jobless Rate Grips Los Angeles

KCETAntonio Villaraigosa with other people's money.​Thankfully, we have CitywatchLA explaining how Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa spends bundles of cash on pointless gestures. His trip to Asia, which will have zero effect on the Los Angeles economy, is burning $30,000 a day. Villaraigosa says he' ... More >>

L.A. City Hall Offers Gensler, Wealthy SaMo Architect, $1 Million in Community Grants to Move East

Funny how L.A. City Councilmembers are acting all sympathetic toward the 99 percent camping on their front lawn -- then making sweet deals with millionaire companies so the well-off don't have to pay a dime. When as far as we can tell, that's pretty much exactly the type of behavior Occupy is spitti ... More >>

Unemployment in Los Angeles Hits 12.4 Percent: Recovery or Great Recession?

'The Jerk'​We hope you're enjoying the economic recovery, what with the stock market taking a stage dive, a real estate Ice Age and yes, lots and lots of people out of work. Good thing 2008 is in the rear view, right? Wait, California just announced state unemployment has hit 12 percent. That ... More >>

Huge Subsidy for Stadium Architect

Villaraigosa quietly plans to hand Gensler $1 million meant for the poor

Richard Riordan Endorses Private Equity Baron Austin Beutner For Mayor

Ted SoquiRichard Riordan endorses Austin Beutner for mayor​Former Mayor Richard Riordan endorsed fellow rich guy Austin Beutner this morning in the 2013 mayor's race.Beutner limped into Pear Garden, a factory that makes Korean food in downtown L.A. According to his press staff, Beutner tore a liga ... More >>

If Arizona Legalized All Latino Immigrants (Fat Chance), State Would Collect $1.6 Billion More in Taxes, Says UCLA Report

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer: generally wrong about things​We know wackjob Arizona officials aren't really too into facts anymore, in their SB 1970 crusade to hunt down every last undocumented Latino and throw 'em all back to the drug lords down south, but UCLA professor Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda jus ... More >>

Los Angeles Traffic Congestion is Number One in U.S. (Again): 405, 5, 10 Freeways Are National Contenders

We're number one.​This is about as surprising as another Charlie Sheen outburst. But here it is folks, the news: Yet another study ranks L.A.'s traffic congestion as the worst in the nation among major cities. Yeah, a traffic data company called INRIX released its fourth-annual National Tra ... More >>

Despite Job Growth, Latinos Are More Scared of Losing Their Jobs Than Other Workers

​The good news for Hispanic workers is that over the past two months there's been solid job growth in industries where Hispanics have a significant presence. But with the good, there's always a bit of the bad. Latinos are more worried about job security than any other workers.

One Out Of Five In California Unemployed, According To '60 Minutes'

CBS'60 Minites' asks how many in this room full of jobless folks have degrees.​In a Debbie Downer of a story about California's jobless masses (yeah, we heard, the recession is over), CBS' 60 Minutes on Sunday dropped this bomb: Twenty-two percent -- more than one out of every five people -- ... More >>

Reuters/Ipsos Poll: California Voters Don't Dig Big Oil-funded Proposition 23

Ecolocalizer.com"No on 23" rally in Berkeley.​A new Reuters/Ipsos Poll shows that Big Oil-funded Proposition 23, the November ballot measure that seeks to suspend California's global climate change law, is heading for almost certain defeat, with 49 percent of those polled opposing the initiat ... More >>

Los Angeles Is Ranked 2nd Most Stressful City In The Nation...Again

​Another survey yet again confirms that Los Angeles may be one of the worst places to live in the nation. L.A. is ranked the 2nd most stressful city among the 50 largest metropolitan areas, according to Portfolio.com. These results follow last month's findings by Forbes, which also gave L.A. ... More >>

Several Thousand Union Members Rally in Downtown L.A. To Bring Jobs Back To California

Steve La​At least 1,000 people gathered at Los Angeles City Hall Friday to rally for job growth in California. Among the masses were members of several labor unions from L.A. and from across the country. "We're here because presence has power," said Steven Pasillas, 31 of the International B ... More >>

Los Angeles Is One of the Worst Places To Live, According to Web Site For Geezers

​ Los Angeles is ranked the 6th worst place to live in the country, according to a study by AOL's Wallet Pop. The website compiled a list of the top 10 worst cities to live in the country and using factors such as unemployment rate, pollution, crime, health data and other factors that would ma ... More >>

One In Three California Teens Can't Land A Job

​According to a article by California Watch, one in three California teenagers cannot get a job. Though teens from ages 16 and 19 generally face the highest rate of unemployment, the teen unemployment rate in California is more than double what it was back in 2000. While 25.7 percent of teen ... More >>

Oil Companies Try To Suspend Green House Reductions Bill

​Big oil companies are trying to suspend a California green-house gasses law, which sets limits on such emissions until the state unemployment rate falls below 5.5%, according to NBC Los Angeles. A ballot initiative will put the issue of suspending the law before voters in November. Proponent ... More >>

Mayor Villaraigosa Ripped In Forbes Magazine For Selfish Leadership As City Struggles

​Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa this week was ripped by preeminent local urban expert Joel Kotkin in a piece for Forbes magazine that calls the L.A. leader " ... a sometimes charming pol utterly bereft of economic acumen." The piece notes that the city has sunk to near-historic economi ... More >>

Goldman Sachs Announces Initiative To Assist Los Angeles Small Businesses

​Goldman Sachs announced today a plan to provide $20 million in loans for small businesses in the Los Angeles area, offering educational opportunities and business support services as part of an initiative it calls "10,000 Small Businesses." "Los Angeles is home to many very talented small ... More >>

Looks good for Romero-Dutton law: It bans ousted California politicians from getting unemployment

California state Sen. Gloria Romero's  bill to prevent loser politicians who get ousted by voters from collecting California state unemployment insurance has made it out of a key labor committee in Sacramento. Well, thank God for that.John Nunez​Yes, you read it right. Thanks to a particularl ... More >>

Al Gore Backs Mayor's 'Carbon Surcharge' Rate Hikes For DWP Customers

​Former Vice President Al Gore on Tuesday backed Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's "carbon surcharge" proposal for Department of Water and Power customers despite reports indicating that the plan could hike power fees as much as 28.4 percent. "Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles has introduc ... More >>

L.A. Lost Nearly 57,000 Manufacturing Jobs In The Last Year

​The Los Angeles region lost 56,681 manufacturing jobs -- more than the population of Culver City -- from February 2009 to February 2010, according to Manufacturers' News Inc. data cited in the San Francisco Business Times. The job losses represent the bulk of California's shrinking manufactu ... More >>

What Recession? L.A. Mayor Wants An Extra $2.50 A Month From You

​The Europe-jetting, soap-opera acting, Oscar partying mayor of Los Angeles thinks you haven't pitched in enough cash to city coffers, because it's not what your mayor can do for you, but what what you can do for Mayor V. That's right, Antonio Villaraigosa is backing a plan that would have De ... More >>

Good money after bad: Should L.A. taxpayers pay $40,000 to steal $20,000 jobs from South Gate?

City Hall’s Revenge on Cecilia Estolano

Villaraigosa and his boys pushed out the one woman who topped them all

L.A. Tops The Nation In Job Losses

​We've been lamenting the losses handed to us by New York lately, specifically its claim that it gets twice as many international tourists as L.A. Well now we have something we can hang out hat on: Los Angeles beat New York and every other city in ... job losses. Yay. According to the Los Ang ... More >>

L.A. Could Be Looking At 'Two-Year Jobless Recovery'

Los Angeles, home to a near 14 percent unemployment rate, could be in the midst of "a two-year, jobless recovery," Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Larry Frank told Reuters. That's some hard medicine to swallow, but the city has received about $44 million in federal stimulus funds intended to train workers ... More >>

Hollywood's Catered Stimulus

Why $23 million creates just 21 jobs

Weather Balloons and Unemployment

More Crime and Punishment and a virtual Conquest of the South Pole

Time Magazine Says Viva California

Dubai might have its man-made islands and Shaghai residents might squint under the glare of all the new skyscrapers there, but California is still where the economic action is. That's according to the latest issue of Time magazine, which states that, despite the budget mess in Sacramento, struggling ... More >>

Recession Bonus: Less L.A. Traffic

You always hear people comment on how much easier it is to get to and from work these days, and maybe you yourself have noticed how much lighter freeway traffic seems to be. At first this was written off as a temporary effect of 2008's rocketing gas prices. Then, as the full effect of recessionary c ... More >>

Stimulus Database: A Lo$ Angeles Breakdown

The L.A. Daily News, Stimulus Watch and US Mayors.org offer nifty search engines permitting readers to look through the 321 projects that the city of Los Angeles is submitting to Washington for its $7.3 billion cut of the $790 billion stimulus plan, which the House passed today. The database shows t ... More >>

Did Losing His Dog, Saki, Detonate the 'Killer Santa' Bruce Jeffrey Pardo?

One of the creepiest pieces of news about mass-murderer Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, an aerospace software technician who lived in Montrose, among Los Angeles' most charming, quiet and friendly suburban neighborhoods, was that he lost his "beloved" dog, Saki, to the estranged wife Pardo so viciously and met ... More >>

Downwardly Mo

Can better schools — can better anything — fix the L.A. economy?

Prom Night

A few tips for George Bush’s speechwriters

No New Taxes

Except on students

Now, That’s a Real Strike

Teamsters idle their grocery-laden trucks

Ports of Loss

Taft-Hartley chalks up another victory for the boss

Down, Boy

Mayor Riordan doesn’t like it when people criticize his business record