The title is "Employment in the Southern CA and San Francisco Region Continued to Contract."

A line chart that shows the year-to-year percentage change in nonfarm employment in Southern California (Los Angeles, Orange County, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Ventura), the San Francisco Bay area (San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Santa Rosa, and Vallejo), and the rest of California. In Southern California, employment grew by 1.804 percent in early 1995, compared to a year earlier. Southern California employment changed by 1.584 percent in 1996, 3.381 percent in 1998, 2.554 percent in 2001, minus 0.830 percent in 2002, and 0.326 percent in 2003. Employment increased by 1.464 percent in the San Francisco Bay area in 1995, compared to a year earlier. San Francisco Bay area employment changed by 3.823 percent in 1996, 4.238 percent in late 1997, 2.766 percent in 1999, 5.006 percent in mid-2000, minus 6.769 percent in 2002, and minus 1.859 percent in 2003. In the rest of California, employment changed by 2.577 percent in 1995, 4.184 percent in 1996, 0.949 percent in 1997, 5.384 percent in late 1998, 2.972 in 1999, 4.834 percent in early 2000, 0.220 percent in late 2001, and 2.830 percent in 2003.