they are here in California.....
Map Title: Unemployment rates by county, not seasonally adjusted
Map Type: California county Map
Month/Year: December/2013
County December
2013
Alameda County 6.3
Alpine County 8.4
Amador County 9.0
Butte County 9.1
Calaveras County 9.4
Colusa County 20.5
Contra Costa County 6.4
Del Norte County 10.7
El Dorado County 7.2
Fresno County 12.5
Glenn County 11.3
Humboldt County 7.5
Imperial County 22.5
Inyo County 7.1
Kern County 10.7
Kings County 12.8
Lake County 12.1
Lassen County 10.1
Los Angeles County 8.8
Madera County 10.7
Marin County 4.2
Mariposa County 8.9
Mendocino County 7.4
Merced County 14.2
Modoc County 10.6
Mono County 7.2
Monterey County 11.0
Napa County 5.9
Nevada County 6.7
Orange County 5.2
Placer County 6.5
Plumas County 11.8
Riverside County 9.1
Sacramento County 7.7
San Benito County 10.4
San Bernardino County 8.7
San Diego County 6.4
San Francisco County 4.8
San Joaquin County 12.1
San Luis Obispo County 5.6
San Mateo County 4.6
Santa Barbara County 6.2
Santa Clara County 5.7
Santa Cruz County 9.2
Shasta County 9.8
Sierra County 10.8
Siskiyou County 12.5
Solano County 7.3
Sonoma County 5.7
Stanislaus County 12.2
Sutter County 14.5
Tehama County 10.4
Trinity County 11.1
Tulare County 13.4
Tuolumne County 8.5
Ventura County 6.9
Yolo County 9.5
Yuba County 12.2
Without context these numbers mean little. Most (all) of the very rural counties have high unemployment and very low populations. Many with high unemployment include large areas of wilderness and farming, regions which did not receive a large influx of money from The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Notice the rate of the nine Bay Area Counties (SF, San Mateo, Marin, Napa, Sonoma, Solano, Contra Costa, Alameda and Santa Clara) all but Solano are below the national average. Building is on going in much of the Bay Area as well as road and bridge projects, BART is expanding into San Jose, and Silicon Valley and SOMA/China Basin (near AT&T Park) is booming.