Yosha Bourgea earned $43,000 a year teaching school until he lost his job about a year ago and had to settle for substitute work that pays a fraction of his former income.
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The bureau estimates that California's underemployment rate is at 18.5 percent. That's up from 11.7 percent a year ago.
"The numbers are telling us that about 1 in 5 Californians is either unemployed or underemployed," said economist Sylvia Allegretto, with the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at UC Berkeley. "The story of this recession is not just people losing their jobs, but people losing hours and losing wages." ...
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