At the State of the City Breakfast, the UCSB Economic Forecast Project promoted a new website for the community with detailed data, analysis, and visuals…
According to the new-look website, “the figure above plots the percentage change in employment in the private sector for (i) California, (ii) San Luis Obispo and Paso Robles, (iii) Santa Barbara, Santa Maria and Goleta, and (iv) Oxnard, Thousand Oaks and Ventura since the beginning of the recession in December 2007, and shows that employment in California and for the Tri-Counties simultaneously picked up 5 months after aggregate output in the U.S. began to rise. The figure also shows that Santa Barbara county has made the strongest recovery so far, and is now about 9 percent below its peak level, and 1 percentage point higher than California.”




So the good news is… We are doing better than the state of CA, Oxnard and SLO… Cool