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Congress Hammers EDD: They Really Are That Bad at Their Jobs

September 15, 2024 2:45 amSeptember 15, 2024 2:46 am

Prisoners got $810 million dollars in unemployment benefits from California’s Employment Development Department – don’t let the name fool you; it’s the unemployment agency – during the pandemic. So many benefit debit cards were sent out the issuer warned they...

Exclusive: California EDD Fraud Money Paid for North Korea Nukes?

September 13, 2024 1:55 pmSeptember 13, 2024 3:47 pm

One of North Korea’s top exports is hair. That’s not a typo and you did not read that wrong and it doesn’t mean fur or wool. It means hair. In 2023, North Korea exported “feathers, artificial flowers, hair” to the...

California on Strike

August 15, 2023 9:28 amAugust 15, 2023 9:44 am

Strike 338, you’re out. Over the past two years, California has led – by far – the nation in strikes. While the current Hollywood and hotel worker strikes are the most visible, the state has seen hundreds of others since...

Truckers to POTUS: Withdraw DOL Nominee Julie Su

June 23, 2023 6:50 amJune 23, 2023 6:57 am

Thursday two starkly contrasting messages were sent about the stalled confirmation of Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su, California’s failed former Labor and Workforce Development Agency Secretary. It’s the independent truckers versus Lorena Gonzalez. The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association sent a...

Julie Su Pining for Labor Secretary

May 26, 2023 4:30 pmMay 27, 2023 8:42 am

Julie Su’s struggle to be confirmed the next Secretary of Labor got a bit of help this week, though it is unclear if it will do any good as she tries desperately to keep key Democrats from abandoning her quest....

Julie Su Underling Calls Migrant Program He Oversees ‘The Purchase of Humans’

May 15, 2023 4:33 pmMay 15, 2023 4:34 pm

A senior Department of Labor staffer a few weeks ago claimed the H-2A migrant worker program “literally is the purchase of humans to perform difficult work under terrible conditions, sometimes including subhuman living conditions.” The staffer also claimed wages are...

California Did NOT Default on its Federal Unemployment Debt

May 11, 2023 5:00 amMay 11, 2023 7:54 am

While Governor Newsom and the legislature’s decision to foist the re-payment of a federal debt caused by the laughably destructive EDD onto the backs of California businesses remains unconscionable, recent reports that the state is “defaulting” on the debt are...