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San Diego County’s unemployment fell to 6.6 percent in November, its lowest level since the pandemic began, state labor officials said Friday.
. However, the survey results are from the week ending Nov. 15, the day before the county was placed in the state’s most restrictive COVID-19 closure protocol, called the purple tier. That action moved restaurants, bars, gyms and movie theaters to outdoor-only and retail capacity was reduced.
It is likely the unemployment rate will rise in the next report because of COVID restrictions placed on businesses. But the pace at which people went back to work in San Diego County gave some analysts hope. In May, the unemployment rate reached 15.2 percent, its highest ever since record-keeping for the county began in 1990.
Income-share agreements have emerged as a new financing option for colleges and nontraditional education programs. Theyâve generated excitement among those who believe that ISAs can offer a much more student-friendly form of financing. But there are also concerns that they might not be, in part due to the fact that this is a recent trend, and in part due to the fact that ISAs are still legally in a gray area and largely unregulated.
What do we know so far about from research into how ISA programs are faring? Perhaps more importantly, how do students decide to take one on, and how are they faring? And how has the pandemicâwhich has disrupted colleges and labor marketsâimpacted the momentum behind this new financial experiment?
The San Diego Workforce Partnership, founded in 1974, is an organization that funds job training programs.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has closed 535 child care businesses in San Diego County while simultaneously raising operating costs and shrinking revenues for an already struggling industry.
The number of closures represents about 12 percent of child care providers in the county, according to a November report from the YMCA Childcare Resource Service.
“We’re really seeing that child care providers are struggling to keep their doors open,” said Kim McDougal, executive director of the Childcare Resource Service.
A fear of health risks is one of the main reasons child care programs have closed, a statewide survey of the programs by UC Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Child Care Employment shows.