The Inland Empire trains 42 primary care doctors per 100,000 people. Its hospitals are done waiting for more to arrive.
Citrus Belt Review: The Inland Empire ranks among California's worst for physician supply — and its health employers have stopped waiting for the labor market to fix it. Across the region, hospitals are building their own doctor-training pipelines, a long-cycle hiring strategy aimed at a shortage that recruiting alone can't solve.
Why the Inland Empire can't join the work-from-anywhere economy
Citrus Belt Review: A national flexibility trend called "micro-shifting" assumes workers control their own hours. In a region where just 22% of jobs can be done from home — the lowest share in California — that premise quietly excludes most of the workforce, and it's the same premise underneath nearly every white-collar work trend of the past five years.
The IE's Gen Z Problem Isn't the One in the Headlines
Citrus Belt Review: The national debate blames AI or remote work for young workers' struggles. Both arguments are about a ladder the Inland Empire never had.
The national nurse-shortage panic doesn't fit the Inland Empire's RN forecast
Citrus Belt Review: A national study showing RN turnover nearly doubled has the healthcare feed talking shortage again. The IE's bedside-nurse forecast doesn't read that way — but its behavioral-health staffing does, and worse than almost anywhere in the state.
Kaiser's $1B strike bill lands on Fontana, Riverside, and Ontario
Citrus Belt Review: Kaiser Permanente put the cost of its winter nurses strike above $1 billion. That number is system-wide, but the walkout was heavily an Inland Empire event — and the settlement that ended it reset wage floors for thousands of local healthcare workers at three of the region's busiest hospitals.
The Inland Empire's restaurant wages run below the coast, weakening the local case for service robots
Citrus Belt Review: IE food-service workers average $19.66 an hour — and the metro's overall wage runs about 16% below the LA basin, per BLS May 2024 data. The national story about restaurant robots assumes labor has gotten expensive enough to automate. In the region that automated its warehouses, that case is weaker than almost anywhere in Southern California.
The IE's in-demand jobs are the ones short-term Pell was built to screen out
Citrus Belt Review: Starting July 1, federal Pell grants extend for the first time to short-term job training — but only for programs whose graduates land "above the poverty line in an in-demand career." Statewide, that gate is meant to weed out low-wage truck-driving and nursing-assistant mills. In the Inland Empire, those are the in-demand jobs.
IE job postings drop below pre-pandemic levels for the first time since 2021
Citrus Belt Review: Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario postings are down 10% year over year — twice the national decline — and crossed below the February 2020 baseline on May 29.
GXO shuts a San Bernardino warehouse, cutting 31 jobs
California EDD WARN report: Permanent closure at 7010 Cajon Blvd., filed June 1, effective August 2 — the third logistics contraction filed on the Cajon corridor this spring.
TeamOne to cut 725 staffing jobs in Moreno Valley
California EDD: A staffing firm is cutting 725 jobs at one Moreno Valley site — one of the largest single WARN filings in the corridor this cycle, and a read on warehouse labor demand more than any one employer.
IE unemployment falls as hiring picks up across both counties
HSJ Chronicle: The latest EDD numbers show the Inland Empire jobless rate down as employers add jobs, with demand holding in education and health, hospitality, government, construction, and trade.
Redlands Unified cuts 24 more teaching staff, 43 this month
Community Forward Redlands: 17 of the 24 cuts are counselors; the district started the year planning to eliminate 91 positions before vacancies and attrition pared it down.
Calvary Murrieta Christian School closes Friday, ending 33-year run
Geodis lays off 238 at Rialto warehouse as IE freight cuts mount
Chino Hills Chick-fil-A files WARN for 98 temporary layoffs
California WARN tracker: Franchise operator GladUDid lists the 3640 Grand Avenue location as a temporary closure effective July 11; classification suggests a remodel rather than a permanent shutdown.
Frito-Lay shuts its Rancho Cucamonga warehouse, ending a 56-year run
Liberty Healthcare files WARN for 113 San Bernardino layoffs
California WARN tracker: Pennsylvania-based mental health services contractor files for 113 layoffs effective July 8; one of the freshest filings in the corridor (notice dated May 13).
ShipMonk closes its San Bernardino warehouse, 145 jobs cut
California WARN tracker: Florida-based 3PL files for permanent closure of its 6010 Cajon Boulevard fulfillment center effective June 30; tracker now lists 145 workers, up from the 124 initially reported.
IE unemployment slips to 4.9% as construction leads April hiring
California EDD: The rate eased from a revised 5.1% in March as the two counties added 5,600 nonfarm jobs over the month — construction led with 2,800.
Redlands Community Hospital hiring across IT and clinical
Redlands Community Hospital: The independent Redlands hospital has 42 open roles, including hospital information systems and information system design positions.