Unemployment

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California’s jobless claims site crashes as backlog grows

Tech glitches have struck California’s beleaguered unemployment department once again. The Employment Development Department’s website was unable to process claimants’ information over the weekend and was still plagued with difficulties Monday. “Some customers are experiencing issues using these services,” a pop-up on EDD’s benefits registration webpage read Monday. “We’re working to restore service as soon […]

에 의해 Emily Hoeven • 3월 23, 2021

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Will Newsom appoint an Asian attorney general?

Good morning, California. It’s Thursday, March 18. Surge in anti-Asian hate Pressure is mounting on Gov. Gavin Newsom to appoint an Asian American or Pacific Islander attorney general amid a surge in anti-Asian harassment and violence, including Tuesday shootings in Atlanta in which a man killed eight people, six of whom were women of Asian […]

에 의해 Emily Hoeven • 3월 18, 2021

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Fewer jobs, more wine: California’s deadly COVID year in 9 charts

On March 19, 2020 Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a statewide shelter-in-place order. In response to an unprecedented public health threat, it was an equally unprecedented shuttering of day-to-day life. “This is not a permanent state,” Newsom assured us at the time. “This is a moment in time. And we will meet this moment together.” On […]

에 의해 제레미아 키멜만 그리고 벤 크리스토퍼 • 3월 17, 2021

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Patients about to flood vaccine system — millions newly eligible

Today, millions of Californians will become eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, inundating a system already straining under the weight of limited supply, pervasive tech glitches, political infighting and general confusion. Originally, only Californians with disabilities and severe health conditions were set to become eligible for the vaccine today. But the state on Thursday expanded prioritization […]

에 의해 Emily Hoeven • 3월 15, 2021

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Labor protections needed for independent contractors

Providing independent contractors access to labor protections and benefits would help businesses comply with labor laws and spread costs more evenly.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 3월 10, 2021

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Fact-checking Gavin Newsom’s 2021 State of the State speech

As California's governor delivered his annual address — this time from Dodger Stadium — the CalMatters reporting team offered the following corrections, clarifications and context.

에 의해 CalMatters Staff • 3월 9, 2021

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California’s unemployment mess explained in 3 minutes

The latest CalMatters video offers a quick explanation of how California’s unemployment system went awry while struggling to confront unprecedented demand. As the pandemic left millions of Californians unemployed, prosecutors say scammers found many ways to defraud the state. The confusion derailed the unemployment system and left many people out of work to fend for […]

에 의해 Byrhonda Lyons 그리고 로렌 헤플러 • 3월 9, 2021

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Bidding wars and overblown fears: The curious case of the California exodus

New moving data and intensifying housing bidding wars undercut fears of a California mass exodus. But some cities have been hit harder, and many rushed moves are difficult to track, obscuring COVID-induced migration.

에 의해 로렌 헤플러 • 3월 4, 2021

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Remember when? Timeline marks key events in California’s year-long pandemic grind

In early March 2020, an elderly man died in Placer County. Health officials ruled the Rocklin resident’s death to be a result of COVID-19 — the disease caused by a novel coronavirus that, to this point, had appeared in a handful of cases up and down the West Coast. The man, in his 70s with […]

에 의해 Richard Procter • 3월 4, 2021

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Counties raise concerns as OptumServe gets bigger role in vaccination

Health care operations company OptumServe has quietly been assuming an ever-larger role in California’s pandemic response — including its vaccine rollout — despite numerous counties expressing dissatisfaction with its services. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday announced plans to open 11 OptumServe vaccination sites to serve “some of the hardest-hit or most at-risk communities” in the […]

에 의해 Emily Hoeven • 2월 26, 2021