Unemployment

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Recall backers raise more, but Newsom’s side has more cash in the bank

While the governor's opponents have burned through most of the money they've collected to date, his defenders have some $2.5 million in the bank.

에 의해 벤 크리스토퍼 • 5월 4, 2021

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An unprecedented day for California

Good morning, California. It’s Tuesday, April 27. Census + recall What a day Monday was. First, the U.S. Census Bureau announced that California will lose a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time in the state’s 171-year history. Then, Secretary of State Shirley Weber announced that supporters of the effort to […]

에 의해 Emily Hoeven • 4월 27, 2021

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Key reason unemployment rate fell: Californians dropped out of workforce

It’s a troubling trend: For two out of three months in 2021, California’s unemployment rate shrank partly from thousands of people dropping out of the workforce. The Golden State’s unemployment rate hit a pandemic low of 8.3% in March, down from 8.5% in February, according to figures released Friday by the Employment Development Department. But […]

에 의해 Emily Hoeven • 4월 19, 2021

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California hits huge vaccine milestone

Good morning, California. It’s Friday, April 16. Nearly halfway there California is at its pandemic best. No counties are left in the state’s most restrictive reopening tier. California has the lowest coronavirus positivity rate in the country. And 49% of eligible residents are at least partially vaccinated — a number sure to have crossed the […]

에 의해 Emily Hoeven • 4월 16, 2021

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Living without a job and under the harassment of the landlord

Alonso and his wife have been unable to afford rent during the pandemic. They share a one-bedroom apartment with their four children.

에 의해 Araceli Martinez Ortega • 4월 14, 2021

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Making money off California’s unemployment boondoggle

Good morning, California! It’s Monday, April 5. I’m CalMatters politics reporter Ben Christopher, filling in for Emily Hoeven, who is enjoying a much-deserved week off. A “gold rush” amid the calamity This much is not news: California’s Employment Development Department, the state agency responsible for shelling out unemployment claims to millions of jobless Californians, is still […]

에 의해 벤 크리스토퍼 • 4월 5, 2021

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Amid California’s unemployment crisis, a tech gold rush

The state’s unemployment agency has signed $236 million in private contracts as jobless workers await benefits. EDD says it needs the outside help.

에 의해 로렌 헤플러 • 4월 5, 2021

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Inside CA’s little-known $21B debt

Good morning, California. It’s Monday, March 29. Businesses to shoulder costs California’s unemployment rate fell to a pandemic low of 8.5% in February, the Employment Development Department announced Friday — even as its jobless benefits fund sank deeper into the red, imperiling economic recovery. The Golden State recovered nearly 91% of the jobs it lost […]

에 의해 Emily Hoeven • 3월 29, 2021

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Is California blowing it on unemployment reform?

The state went deep into debt to keep jobless benefits flowing during the pandemic. And if it doesn’t fix its $48 billion unemployment problem, that could derail COVID-19 recovery.

에 의해 로렌 헤플러 • 3월 29, 2021

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Gov. Newsom and legislators have lots of money to spend, few strings attached

The federal coronavirus relief package gives a $26 billion windfall to California. Business groups, doctors and activists all want their share.

에 의해 벤 크리스토퍼 • 3월 24, 2021