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Perspective

Dec. 29, 2010

California’s Unemployment Rate: An Open Letter to Gov. Jerry Brown

Some proposals the new governor should keep in mind if he wants to put California back on a path to prosperity. By Lonny Zilberman of Wilson Turner Kosmo.


By Lonny Zilberman


When you first served as governor of California, I was 15-years-old and had little interest in the state's unemployment rate. In the early 1980s, I had my own newspaper route (which I later realized was one step removed from involuntary servitude), and the state's unemployment rate hit a whopping 10 percent. California's economy was listless and the country was slowly recovering from a deep recession. Fast forward 30 years and as Yo...

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