Nestled in between Black Friday and Cyber Monday is perhaps the most important shopping event for the small businesses that comprise the backbone of our local economy in Moorpark: Small Business Saturday, this Saturday, November 27.

From our local antique shops, to our local jewelers, to our local day spas, to our local certified farmers' market and its crafters, there are ample opportunities to support Moorpark businesses. Take a break from your shopping this weekend and pick up some boba at either of our two boba shops. Need a recharge? Lift your spirits with a soothing cup of coffee from any of Moorpark's independent coffee houses. Hungry? Stop by any of our dozens of Moorpark restaurants! And if you're done for the day, rest up with some friends at our local pub or microbreweries!

By shopping small businesses in Moorpark this Saturday, you help your favorite Moorpark moms and pops, while keeping jobs here and funding services that you receive right here in Moorpark.

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The California Labor Market Information Division (LMID) has released its October 2021 report, revealing a strong improvement in our unemployment rate, dropping from 5.3% in September to 5.0% in October. Employment gains, however, were concentrated in only five industry sectors, Local Government & Education (up by 1,000 jobs), Leisure & Hospitality (up by 600 jobs), Retail Trade (up by 400 jobs), Private Education & Health Services (up by 300 jobs), and Transportation and Warehousing (up by 100 jobs). Each of those gains had been expected, and all except Transportation & Warehousing are only still just eating into the losses suffered through COVID-19. While those gains are all positive, what’s not so positive is our continuing lackluster labor market participation and our lack of new hiring in two other sectors especially hard hit by pandemic, Construction and Other Services.

Ventura County's 5.0% unemployment rate is 21st among California's 58 counties and ahead of the 6.1% statewide unemployment rate. However, we are still behind the U.S. as a whole, which is at 4.3% unemployment.

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