California's job growth tripled the nation's, even as the Delta variant spread\r\n

California's recovery from the COVID-19 recession strengthened in August as employers added 104,300 jobs. Unemployment remains high at 7.5%

As of this week, two-thirds of California’s population had received at least one virus inoculation. Nonetheless, with COVID-19’sand vaccine resistance persisting, economists said the state’s recovery may remain uneven.

Public schools accounted for 46,900 jobs or nearly 45% of California’s net employment growth last month. “That’s likely a one-off gain that won’t be repeated,” said Scott Anderson, an economist with the Bank of the West in San Francisco. By midyear, about half of the 30,000 members of Unite Here Local 11, one of Southern California’s largest unions, had returned to work at hotels, stadiums, airport concessions and convention centers.“We were feeling relatively positive before the Delta surge,” said Kurt Petersen, the union’s co-president. “But Delta has pulled us back, due to a stubborn group of people that refuses to be vaccinated.

Servicon, a Culver City company that cleans hospitals, aerospace factories and office buildings throughout Southern California, has added 400 janitors since the beginning of the pandemic, bringing its total workforce to 2,000.

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