The pandemic wiped out 3 million jobs in California. Then why did the Employment Development Department send out 9 million unemployment benefit debit cards? Since almost all of the cards were sent out in the first 10 months of the...
Julie Su’s rough road to becoming the next Secretary of Labor just got even rougher – and narrower. West Virginia Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin jumped off the Su fence and landed squarely on the “No” side Thursday afternoon, announcing he...
A congresswoman is wondering if Julie Su can continue to be acting Secretary of Labor. Pundits are wondering if her being side-lined by President Biden from the upcoming autoworker union contract talks is a sign even the White House is...
The Unemployment Insurance (UI) trust fund the California Employment Development Department uses to pay benefits is now “structurally insolvent” a new Legislative Analyst’s Office report states. The report – a reaction to the “May Fund Forecast” released by the EDD...
Despite already owing the federal government billions, and despite state businesses already paying a surcharge to cover that debt, the Employment Development Department (EDD) will be borrowing even more federal money to cover costs for the foreseeable future. In other...
Yesterday, a big newspaper ran a “think piece” about why the public doesn’t trust the media anymore. The day before, there was an “op-ed” on the subject. Last week, there was a 2,000-word analysis of the issue. In fact, over...
The tortured path of Julie Su’s journey to be Joe Biden’s Secretary of Labor is riven with potholes, politics, and the PRO Act. In the past week, Su was praised by some for helping broker a tentative end to the...