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Life Imitates Art
Coming a little late to the game today I’m combining art and work. Cheri Lucas Rowlands challenged the WordPress community to focus on life imitating art for the weekly photo challenge. In my work I sometimes find art in statistics … Continue reading
Photo Challenge: Time
My high school Latin teacher would walk around the room during a test and whisper “tempus fugit” to remind us that time is fleeing or time flies. Time: it’s the one thing you can’t get more of. Life is motion. … Continue reading
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Photo Challenge: Vibrant
It’s a gloomy day outside. Winter in California is the rainy season and, so far, it’s been a normal rainy/gloomy winter. Jen H. challenged the WordPress community to get vibrant! Here are a few winter samples of vibrant from the … Continue reading
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San Francisco Bay Area Jobs in Winter Freeze
November 2015 employment figures from the California Employment Development Department (EDD) paint a winter scene with jobs stuck in the frozen ground like boundary marker poles on the ski slopes at Lake Tahoe this year. (See Nov. 2015 summary here … Continue reading
Hallowed Data
October has come and gone and the California Employment Development Department and CoreLogic have just updated data on employment in the San Francisco Bay Area and median housing prices, respectively. Look here for CA EDD October employment data. Total employment … Continue reading
Exporting Jobs?
For the first time since last December the Bay Area has seen total employment take a slip. The labor force also shrank slightly for the second month in a row. The big hit was in Santa Clara County where 4,100 … Continue reading
Combo Stats and Grid (Photo Challenge)
Labor market info from the California EDD (Employment Development Department) hit the net today along with a photo challenge from Michelle W. to look at life through a grid! The grid I often look at work through is Bay Area … Continue reading
Employment Still Glowing
The Bay Area continues to add jobs at a good pace but growth remains focused in the core high-tech West Bay Counties plus Alameda. Napa and Solano Counties combined for a loss of more than 11,000 jobs year-over-year while Marin … Continue reading
Escalator App to Nowhere
See the June 2015 San Francisco Bay Area Employment Summary here. Job growth continues in the nine-county region. It does appear to be cooling off a bit. The core West-Bay Counties are still out-pacing the counties with more traditional employment … Continue reading
Say Good-Bye to the Old
The trend splitting the Bay Area continued this month but with a little less vigor. The four “high-tech” counties that ring the western, eastern and southern edges of the San Francisco Bay continue to see strong employment growth. The five … Continue reading


