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Despite a small decrease in the unemployment rate, not even San Diego teaching jobs were added on a yearly basis last December.

During December 2009, the San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos area’s unemployment rate decreased from 10.3 percent to 10.1 percent, following a decrease from 10.7 percent during November. Despite that decrease, the area’s unemployment rate is still slightly higher than the national rate of 10 percent.

The San Diego area had a total non-farm employment of 1,248,400 workers during December, according to the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is down from 1,250,000 workers during November and a 3.3 percent decrease from December 2008.

Only two industries saw a monthly increase in employment, including trade, transportation and utilities by 2,000 workers and education and health services by 200 jobs. Employment in the mining and logging, construction and information industries remained steady over the month, with 300 workers, 65,100 workers and 37,300 workers, respectively.

The other services industry was the only one that managed to add jobs when compared to the previous year. The industry employed 49,000 workers during December, down from 49,100 workers during November, but a .4 percent increase from December 2008.

The construction industry took the biggest hit when compared to the previous year, losing 8.1 percent of its workforce from December 2008 to December 2009. Surprisingly, even the ever-stable education and health services industry saw a yearly decrease in employment, losing .4 percent of its workforce.

Other industries that saw an over-the-year decrease in employment include:

• manufacturing by 6.5 percent
• trade, transportation and utilities by 3.9 percent
• information by 5.6 percent
• financial activities by 2.7 percent
• professional and business services by 4.3 percent
• leisure and hospitality by 4.5 percent
• government by .6 percent

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