1. California has accounted for one out of every six new jobs since 2012.

2. At that pace, the nation would recover all the jobs lost in the recession by the end of 2014.

3. The December jobs gain was little changed at 75,000.

4. Another big impact on the initial jobs target is the way the infocomm industry changed since 2005.

5. The impact on the city of Chicago proper will be 300 new jobs by the end of 2015.

6. Tech jobs there rose by almost a third from 2007 to 2012.

7. Employers are on track to add the most jobs in 15 years in 2014.

8. The county accounted for 47 percent of Bay Area tech jobs in 2016.

9. Germans went to work in 77,500 more manufacturing jobs than they had in 2013.

10. It announced huge losses and slashed some 5,000 jobs from its global workforce in 2015.

11. Kennedy needed 25,000 jobs a week in the early 1960s.

12. Its jobs center lists just 231 openings in the area, which has a population of 284,000.

13. The East Bay retail sector gained 1,000 jobs, although construction was weak and lost 500.

14. The state has lost 20 percent of its manufacturing jobs 68,000 since December 2007.

15. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates 700,000 new IT jobs will be created from 2012 to 2022.