Southern California hotel hiring hits a post-recession low

Cooling tourism and a tight labor market mean Southern California hotel hiring has hit a post-recession low.
My trusty spreadsheet, looking at state employment data, found “accommodation” jobs in the four counties covered by the Southern California News Group grew by only 519 workers to 94,986 when comparing the average employed in the year’s first six months with the same period in 2018.
That meager hiring — equal to 0.5% yearly — is the slowest pace since the Grea