Unemployment continues to fall on the South and Central Coasts.
The California Employment Development Department is reporting that the jobless rate in Ventura County was 3.6% percent in March, dropping from 4% a month earlier. In Santa Barbara County, the 4.4% unemployment rate last month was down from 4.9% percent in February. And, the percentage of people unemployed in San Luis Obispo County fell by 0.3% to 2.9% last month.
The Tri-Counties gained about 1,300 jobs in March.
The unemployment rate in California held steady at 4.3% last month. However, the state lost 72-hundred jobs.