Author: Michael Bernick

In just the past five years, California has seen an explosion of internet job boards, internet job training sites, and internet job hunting blogs. The

Earlier this month, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG) hosted a lunch for its business members  with San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee. Like all SVLG

This essay first appeared earlier this week in Zocalo Public Square. California Used To Embody Stable, Middle-Class Living. It Was a Brief Interlude. The photo

In January of this year, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) announced that it had chosen the City of Richmond as the site for its

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has released its 10 year employment  projections, covering the years 2010-2020. These projections show us, once again, that

In early January, this “California Employment” column departed from its job focus  to detail an  important and brave action in San Francisco. Advocates against domestic

Considerable attention has been given over the past few years in California to the increase in Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients, and the corresponding insolvency of

In George Eliot’s 1874 novel Middlemarch, the young doctor Tertius Lydgate establishes his practice in the fictional Midlands town of Middlemarch. Though he lives far

Increasing over the past few months, as the unemployment rate has declined nationally and in California, question has arisen: How much of the drop in