Ultrasound (US) procedures are diagnostic, noninvasive, and relatively inexpensive. They take a short time to complete, do not use radiation, and cause no harm to the patient. High-frequency sound waves of various intensities are delivered by a transducer, a flashlight-shaped device, pressed against the skin.
According to the BLS current population survey (CPS), the unemployment rate for California rose 0.1 percentage points in July 2017 to 4.8%. The state unemployment rate was 0.5 percentage points higher than the national rate for the month. The unemployment rate in California peaked in February 2010 at 12.2% and is now 7.4 percentage points lower. From a post peak low of 4.7% in May 2017, the unemployment rate has now grown by 0.1 percentage points. You can also see California unemployment compared to other states.
Two states with high unemployment, Illinois and Nevada, had offered 73 weeks of benefits. California had offered 63 weeks, and most others offered 43 to 63 weeks. Virginia, Vermont, New Hampshire and a group of Great Plains and Mountain states, several of which have relatively low unemployment because of the boom in oil and natural gas production, had offered 40 to 42 weeks.