SACRAMENTO — After stealing the identities of death row inmates and even a sitting U.S. senator to make off with billions of dollars in fraudulent unemployment...
The juxtaposition of events this week regarding California’s woebegone Employment Development Department (EDD) could not be more ironic. On Monday, Julie Su, a veteran labor union...
“Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic” is an overworked cliché, but it certainly applies to California’s Employment Development Department. The name itself is a farce. There’s...
In real life politics, as opposed to the textbook variety, hard fact is much less important than image or, as political pros put it, “optics.” We...
Fresno resident Amy Brooks said she was denied unemployment benefits months ago. But she has recently received 24 pieces of mail from the state’s Employment Development...
SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers accused the leader of the state’s unemployment department of failing the public in a tense hearing Thursday that featured stories of people...
Fresno County’s unemployment rate rose to 6.5% in November, up from October’s revised jobless rate of 5.8%, the state said Friday. Meanwhile, California’s unemployment rate held...
