One fundamental shift that more than a decade of jobs reports have tracked is the slow bleeding out of manufacturing jobs in California. Every time the state releases jobs numbers, reporters (including this one) scramble to digest them and offer some context. Since the recession, the rest of the country has seen manufacturing jobs reappear at a faster rate than in California. On Friday, California will release its monthly jobs report, which will say something about the health of the state’s economy. So far this year, the state has lost more than 10,000 manufacturing jobs.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 21, 2016 12:56 UTC