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  2. Lancaster, California - Wikipedia

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    Lancaster / ˈ l æ ŋ. k æ s t ər / is a charter city in northern Los Angeles County, in the Antelope Valley of the western Mojave Desert in Southern California.As of the 2020 census, the population was 173,516, [7] making Lancaster the 153rd-most populous city in the United States and the 30th most populous in California.

  3. California unemployment statistics - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of California unemployment statistics. Many of the counties with the lowest unemployment rates had relatively high levels of income. They were also located in Northern California, with two exceptions: Orange and San Luis Obispo counties. The counties with the highest unemployment rates were generally located in inland ...

  4. Unemployment in France - Wikipedia

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    Unemployment in France (French: chômage en France [ʃomaʒ ɑ̃ fʁɑ̃s] pronunciation ⓘ) discusses the causes and measures of French unemployment and strategies for reducing it. Pôle emploi appeared in 2008. France's unemployment rate increased to 8.60 % in September 2019, from the previously reported number of 8.50 % in June of the same ...

  5. Unemployment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Other data series are available back to 1912. The unemployment rate has varied from as low as 1% during World War I to as high as 25% during the Great Depression. More recently, it reached notable peaks of 10.8% in November 1982 and 14.7% in April 2020. Unemployment tends to rise during recessions and fall during expansions.

  6. Watts riots - Wikipedia

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    In the Great Migration of 1915–1940, major populations of African Americans moved to Northeastern and Midwestern cities such as Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Boston, and New York City to pursue jobs in newly established manufacturing industries; to cement better educational and social opportunities; and to flee racial segregation, Jim Crow laws, violence and racial ...

  7. General Assistance - Wikipedia

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    General Assistance (also known as General Relief) is a term used in the United States to denote welfare programs that benefit adults without dependents (single persons, or less commonly, childless married couples) as opposed to families with children, who receive assistance from the federal program formerly known as Aid to Families with Dependent Children, and, since 1996, officially known as ...

  8. Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration - Wikipedia

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    The NAV offices of Hamar The NAV office in Tromsø. The Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV, originally an abbreviation of Nye arbeids- og velferdsetaten) is the current Norwegian public welfare agency, which consists of the state Labour and Welfare Service as well as municipal welfare agencies.

  9. List of countries by unemployment rate - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of countries by unemployment rate.Methods of calculation and presentation of unemployment rate vary from country to country. Some countries count insured unemployed only, some count those in receipt of welfare benefit only, some count the disabled and other permanently unemployable people, some countries count those who choose (and are financially able) not to work, supported by ...