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Stephen Levy, senior economist at the Palo Alto-based Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy, said larger job gains are needed to lower the unemployment rate.

Without clarity on this important issue, it is hard to plan for the future, much less to pass a state budget in bad economic times," Stephen Levy, director of the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy, wrote in a recent memo to reporters.

The governor's concern was shared by economist Stephen Levy, director of the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy.

Right on the heels of a Federal Reserve report showing manufacturing output rising, a national NFIB Small Business Economic Trends poll finding nearly half of small-business owners expecting the economy to improve, and shortly before the release of a survey by the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy claiming the Golden State was poised to rise again, came the results of fax poll from NFIB/California painting an entirely different picture -- one of slow struggle, instead of bubbly optimism.

The California economy has a strong position in many fast-growing, high-wage industries and will have significant opportunities during the next ten years, according to a long-term economic outlook for the state released today by the Palo Alto-based Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy (CCSCE).

Stephen Levy, senior economist at the Palo Alto-based Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy, says the decline in job losses is a sign the state is "edging" toward the end of the recession.

SOURCE: Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy

That stuff about a $1 billion a day -- I've been fighting that for the past two days," said Stephen Levy, director of the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy.