Sasha Abramsky: California’s unemployment rate is now the highest since the Great Depression
California’s unemployment rate is now the highest since the Great Depression – and its leaders aren’t helping it recover A few months ago, as the economy nose-dived, I surveyed the contours of the depression in Sacramento, California . Everywhere, building projects had stalled, partially-built malls and hotels were being left as monuments to vanished affluence, suburban lots were being sold for fire-sale prices and the private and public sectors alike were hemorrhaging jobs. On Fridays, downto