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EDD Updates Continue With Modernized Disability Benefits Application

May 30, 2025 2:45 amMay 30, 2025 2:46 am

The Employment Development Department (EDD) released a new online application for disability benefits this week, modernizing the agency following years of complaints over the previous longer, more complicated system. Since the beginning of the decade, the EDD has rapidly modernized...

It’s Time Former ‘Acting’ Labor Secretary Julie Su Faces Heat For California’s Pandemic Fraud

February 3, 2025 2:57 amFebruary 3, 2025 7:34 am

In 2020 during Governor Gavin Newsom’s statewide Covid lockdown, he announced the formation of a “strike team” to solve numerous issues plaguing California’s unemployment agency, the Orwellian-named “Employment Development Department: long wait times for unemployment claims, delayed payments, phone delays,...

Boeing To Cut 536 Jobs From California Following Several Years Of Major Incidents, Losses

December 10, 2024 2:45 amDecember 10, 2024 2:46 am

Aircraft manufacturer Boeing announced major cuts in both Washington state and California on Monday, with California reportedly to lose 536 jobs in total, as the company continues to recover from years of financial and engineering issues, as well as more...

Can California’s Broken Unemployment Insurance System Be Saved?

December 4, 2024 2:55 amDecember 4, 2024 7:26 am

“The State’s Unemployment Insurance (UI) Financing System Is Broken. The state’s UI program is supposed to be self-sufficient—that is, the system should collect enough funds to pay for benefits over time.” That is the opening paragraph of the Legislative Analyst’s...

Gov. Newsom Brags on His ‘Economic Blueprint’ While CA Businesses Get Hit with Higher Payroll Taxes

November 22, 2024 9:04 amNovember 22, 2024 9:26 am

California Governor Gavin Newsom is on a listening tour of the state’s red counties, where he does all of the talking and gaslighting, and the people who voted for Trump have to listen. Newsom said Thursday: More jobs. More businesses....

Benefit Fraud Problems and Solutions

November 7, 2024 11:48 amNovember 7, 2024 11:48 am

Because that’s where the money is. That was famed bank robber Willie Sutton’s very possibly apocryphal response when asked why he robbed banks. Now the money is in government benefit programs and that’s why they are being defrauded at record...

Introspection is the Enemy of Happiness – Especially in Government

October 7, 2024 6:00 amOctober 7, 2024 6:01 am

“Introspection is the enemy of happiness.” A very coldly cynical line spoken by Sterling Archer, the lead character in the astonishingly funny “Archer” animated spy television series. It is also very true. While Socrates famously said that “The unexamined life...