Unemployment

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California’s unemployment insurance fund has a stubborn multibillion-dollar problem

California's Employment Development Department got a much-deserved black eye for mismanaging unemployment insurance benefits during the pandemic. There's a lingering aspect to the meltdown, and it could cost the state billions.

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 1월 17, 2024

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California’s worker shortage has quickly become another existential issue

California has plenty of existential issues. A chronic shortage of workers may have joined the list as public and private employers scramble to fill open positions.

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 1월 10, 2024

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California’s unemployment insurance system is so poorly funded it pays 2004 wages

There are plenty of examples California can emulate to fix its unemployment insurance system. The governor and Legislature just need to summon the courage to do it.

By Thomas Rankin • 11월 7, 2023

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The lasting toll of California’s COVID layoffs

From lost homes to mounting debt, workers from across the state share how they were impacted by payment delays, fraud panic and mass confusion about unemployment benefits.

에 의해 로렌 헤플러 • 11월 7, 2023

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Inside California’s billion-dollar bet to overhaul unemployment

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.

에 의해 로렌 헤플러 • 11월 7, 2023

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Internal documents reveal the story behind California’s unemployment crash

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.

에 의해 로렌 헤플러 • 11월 7, 2023

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Unemployment insurance: California’s ‘urgent’ $20 billion problem

The state’s unemployment insurance debt, which ballooned as a result of the pandemic, is in dire straits with no clear path forward.

에 의해 레비 수마가이사이 • 10월 31, 2023

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Strike benefits squabble renews focus on California’s insolvent unemployment insurance system

The recent squabble between Gov. Gavin Newsom and union leaders over unemployment insurance for striking workers renewed attention on the insolvent system that administers benefits.

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 10월 4, 2023

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Labor leaders despair but don’t give up on unemployment for strikers after Gavin Newsom veto

Newsom announced on Saturday he vetoed two labor measures, one that would have given strikers unemployment benefits and another that would have made domestic work safer.

에 의해 Denise Amos 그리고 Felicia Mello • 10월 1, 2023

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Striking workers in California are at a disadvantage. They deserve the jobless benefits they earned

A bill that would extend unemployment benefits to workers on a strike exceeding two weeks is awaiting a signature from Gov. Gavin Newsom. A Hollywood writer argues that striking workers deserve benefits from a fund their labor helps support.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 9월 25, 2023