It's becoming almost a ritual: waiting for new unemployment numbers and looking for signs that the economy is recovering. Today the state said California's unemployment rate dipped a bit in October, to 11.7 percent. That's down from 11.9 percent in September. For a look behind the numbers, we turn to Christopher Thornberg, founding partner of Beacon Economics.
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