November 2023

Read this story in English. En el primer verano durante la pandemia del COVID, nadie sabía quién era quién. En Nigeria, un ingeniero informático de una empresa petrolera supuestamente estaba solicitando desempleo en California y también de otros 16 estados con cuentas de Gmail falsas. En una prisión estatal desierta en el condado de Imperial, […]

The EDD is getting a rebuild from the likes of Salesforce and Amazon as pandemic payment disputes drag on and fraud hits other state benefit systems. Workers, advocates and tech experts are hopeful, but wary.

One California family is haunted by their youngest son’s increasingly frantic — and futile — attempts to break through the EDD’s jammed unemployment lines.

Scammers pulled off one of the biggest suspected frauds in U.S. history while laid-off workers scrambled to survive. A CalMatters investigation finds that the EDD missed red flags and failed to make long-promised changes before the pandemic — and that once the twin crises hit, the state and its top contractors kept making money but were slow to deliver relief.

California hasn't had a really competitive U.S. Senate race for many years. A year from now, voters will choose a new senator after what finally shapes up as a hard-fought campaign.

Read this story in English. California ha invertido miles de millones de dólares en encontrar hogares para veteranos sin hogar, pero el número de ex miembros del servicio militar que viven en la calle se ha mantenido estable durante casi una década. Hoy en día, un tercio de los veteranos sin hogar del país se […]

As the media landscape transforms and opinion sections shrink statewide, Californians need a robust forum to discuss the issues affecting their lives. “California Voices,” our reimagined commentary section, seeks to fill that role.

Read this story in English. No lo podemos llamar una ‘tripledemia’… al menos por el momento. La influenza o ‘Flu’, el virus respiratorio sincitial (VRS) y el COVID-19 están circulando este otoño, pero aún no al ritmo que preocupaba a las agencias de salud pública hace un año.  A medida que nos acercamos a la […]

New vaccines for RSV and an updated booster for COVID-19 give Californians more tools to protect themselves from respiratory viruses this fall.

California’s population of homeless veterans has plateaued despite billions of dollars in state spending to create housing for former military service members. Now, Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to shift the state’s resources to focus on veterans with serious mental health conditions.