2023

Inside the Newsroom

Community engagement and public records fuel CalMatters’ EDD investigation series

The latest investigation from CalMatters digs into how five million Californians waited for delayed unemployment benefits while the state was being defrauded of billions of dollars by scammers from around the world.

经过 Sonya Quick • 11 月 7, 2023

CalMatters 西班牙语版

Documentos internos cuentan la historia detrás de la crisis del desempleo en California

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, […]

经过 劳伦·赫普勒 • 11 月 7, 2023

经济

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.

经过 劳伦·赫普勒 • 11 月 7, 2023

经济

The unemployment money that came too late

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

经过 劳伦·赫普勒 • 11 月 7, 2023

经济

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.

经过 劳伦·赫普勒 • 11 月 7, 2023

评论

California will finally see a highly competitive contest for U.S. Senate

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.

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 11 月 7, 2023

CalMatters 西班牙语版

Un tercio de los veteranos sin hogar vive en California. Newsom respalda un nuevo plan para ayudarlos

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 […]

经过 Shreya Agrawal • 11 月 6, 2023

评论

Introducing ‘California Voices,’ a commentary mission to spotlight less visible authors

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.

经过 尤素夫·巴伊格 • 11 月 6, 2023

CalMatters 西班牙语版

La “tripledemia” de California ha tenido un comienzo suave. Esto es lo que debes saber sobre la temporada del ‘Flu’, el virus respiratorio sincitial y el COVID

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 […]

经过 Shreya Agrawal • 11 月 6, 2023

无家可归

One-third of homeless veterans live in California. Newsom is backing a new plan to help them

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.

经过 Shreya Agrawal • 11 月 6, 2023