unemployment

After a 144-year-old newspaper war, a bankruptcy and the internet gobbling its ad revenue, the Sacramento Bee is deeply cutting its staff, its owners announced.

California has lost jobs and its workforce. By many measures, it has some of the highest unemployment and underemployment rates in the country.

California has fostered programs that move students from classroom to careers, but employers need regional help navigating them, and the young people in them need to be paid, a nonprofit executive says.

State officials have found they are using six high-risk AI-like systems. One year ago, they reported using zero.

California's payroll taxes aren’t keeping up with benefit payouts. The unemployment insurance fund will be $22 billion in the hole by year's end, the state says.

If someone can’t find work, the dominant assumption is they failed to evolve, to learn or to stay current. Now that's likely not true.

Strength in the technology sector is masking California's weakness. Outside of government and health care, the state has added no jobs in a year and a half.

Low-income Californians once lost millions of dollars a month to fraudsters who raided their accounts for food assistance and other public benefits. Gov. Gavin Newsom is highlighting security improvements as the Trump administration accuses Democratic states of tolerating welfare fraud.

Technology companies and Hollywood corporations are laying off thousands. The only job growth is in government and healthcare.

California employers and taxpayers are paying off the state's growing debt from a $20 billion federal loan used to cover unemployment claims.