FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 17, 2021

CONTACT: Brooke Armour
(916) 553-4093
[email protected]

SACRAMENTO—Rob Lapsely, president of the California Business Roundtable issued the following statement today in response to the August 2021 Jobs Report:

“Today’s Jobs Report continues to show California, which lost the most jobs during the pandemic, is regaining jobs back at a healthy pace, even though we have the second-highest unemployment rate in the nation. What's more, job recovery is concentrated in high-wage and low-wage jobs, with little recovery in middle-wage jobs. We need to learn from our slow and prolonged Great Recession recovery and promote additional policies that encourage investment in middle-wage job growth and address the cost-of-living crisis, otherwise the pandemic recovery will only accelerate the two-tiered economy and reduce economic security and mobility for all Californians.”

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