Orange County hiring pace falls to 7-year low

Orange County’s job market is dramatically cooling, with the hiring pace in May falling to a post-recession low.
New state job statistics show Orange County employers added 3,800 workers in the past 12 months to 1.586 million — a gain of just 0.2 percent. While this employment growth, taken from a poll of employers, is the 82nd consecutive month of year-over-year job creation, this is also the smallest advance in the streak that dates to August 2010.
Or look at the slowdown this way: