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More losses in government jobs, SLO County unemployment rates drops

September 21, 2025

By KAREN VELIE

San Luis Obispo County’s unemployment rate fell slightly in August to 5%, the state Employment Development Department reported Friday.

The size of the county workforce increased from 131,900 in Aug. 2024 to 133,800 in Aug. 2025. The county unemployment rate rose from 5.2% in July 2025 to 5% in Aug. 2025.

During August, job losses were seen in the state education sector which lost 2,100 jobs or 39.6%.

In the jobs gained category, the local government sector garnered 1,100 jobs in August.

San Luis Obispo County is ranked 13th out of 58 California counties for lower numbers of unemployed workers. SLO County’s unemployment rate is higher than the national average of 4.5% and lower than the state’s 5.8% rate.

In California, Mono County at 4.1% has the lowest unemployment rate and Imperial County comes in on the bottom with an unemployment rate of 21.5%.

 


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Lotta fat to trim in government. Keep on trimming.


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Firefighters, policemen, postal workers, teacherd etc etc. The losses of so called “government workers” is not something to be celebrated :/ The republican goal is to reduce these services to the point that they’re terrible, then “divest” and privatize in the name of “improvement of services”. Services that YOU will now have to pay for. Vote yes on Prop 50!


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Are you saying that the current state of government services in California is not terrible?


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There’s always room for improvement. That improvement however certainly doesnt start with decreasing the workforce drastically lol.


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Why not? Government employment rose drastically. Government employment pay and benefits rose drastically. Which forced the budget to fail drastically.


Cops and Firemen are not being laid off en mass. But assistants to the assistant deputy secretaries of the vice manager of the city Parking Dept. SHOULD be let off.


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How about the hundreds of cancer research employees that were fired? You on board with that? Or do you as well as the president, not know the difference between transgender and transgenic?


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If we are losing people, numbers are falling, then it makes perfect sense that the government should be cutting back as well. Something tells me we are a bit late in that department, compared to what the business sector is used too. Take tech into account, online forms, smart answering system etc, those number should have been going down a long time ago.


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