Opinion
We must invest in ‘reskilling’ workers for higher-wage jobs
Cash register workers and their customers in area in a South San Francisco store. (Photo: Sundry Photography, via Shutterstock)The California Employment Development Department recently issued its monthly employment report showing unemployment held steady at 8.3 percent in April as the state’s employers added 101,800 jobs. EDD also trumpeted that California regained almost 48 percent of the 2,714,800 total nonfarm jobs lost in March and April 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.