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Intel Announces 200 Layoffs Coming Continuing Mass Silicon Valley Tech Cutbacks

December 6, 2022 12:56 pm

Mass tech layoffs that began in late October continued across Silicon Valley on Tuesday, with tech company Intel announcing 201 job layoffs in Santa Clara and Folsom. The trend of layoffs began just over a month ago when Twitter, shortly...

GLOBE EXCLUSIVE – EDD Has Paid Billions to Feds in Interest Alone

December 3, 2022 7:52 amDecember 3, 2022 8:14 am

Since 1990, California’s unemployment agency – the EDD – has paid the feds $1,793,665,930 in interest alone to help keep its doors open and claimants paid. That approximately $1.8 billion dollar figure does not include what the state currently owes in...

California’s EDD Continues to Borrow Hundreds of Millions – about $13 million PER DAY – To Meet its Obligations

November 28, 2022 2:30 amNovember 27, 2022 4:24 pm

Though much of the Sacramento bureaucratic blob was exposed as the simultaneously incompetent and corrupt menace it is during the pandemic, one agency stood apart by proving itself the most inept and cruel organization in the capitol – the Employment...

EDD Identity Firm Slapped by Congress

November 22, 2022 10:50 amNovember 22, 2022 12:29 pm

The Employment Development Department’s identity verification contractor, ID.me, came under withering Congressional fire late last week for providing allegedly misleading client wait time data and touting allegedly inflated national pandemic fraud-loss figures in order to boost its business. ID.me was...

California’s EDD – Same As It Ever Was

September 26, 2022 6:56 amSeptember 27, 2022 2:17 pm

This article has been updated to explain a correction. “In response to pandemic problems, EDD unveils massive reform initiative.” A headline that anyone has seen? Nope. A headline that should have been seen? Yup. A headline Governor Newsom and the legislature...

Is California’s ‘Lowest Monthly Unemployment Rate since 1970’s’ Legitimate?

August 22, 2022 12:28 pm

Employment statistics for July of 2022 were released over the weekend by the EDD, showing new statewide record unemployment lows while also noting several worrying trends. According to the new statistics, California’s unemployment rate went from 4.2% in June to...

LAO Report Details Astounding Failures within Newsom Admin’s Unemployment Department

August 9, 2022 7:11 amAugust 10, 2022 11:40 am

A new report by the California Legislative Analyst’s Office details astounding failures and errors within Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Employment Development Department (EDD), including payments that were delayed for 5 million workers and improperly denied for likely 1 million more. “The department’s phone...