Millions waited on hold – some literally for days. Hundreds of thousands of legitimate pandemic benefit claims were denied or delayed for months. Computers crashed. Claimants were insulted on Twitter. State legislators were ignored. $40 billion went to fraudsters. The...
Back when newspapers still existed – hey, get off my lawn you rotten kids! – there was a common nickname for a certain section of the paper. News, op-ed, sports, business, real estate, arts, local were all called what they...
The reason why Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su had to be threatened with a subpoena to get her to show up to testify in front of the House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce Wednesday became readily...
$139 Dollars A Second: That’s How Much the EDD Will Borrow TODAY… …And how much it borrowed yesterday and has borrowed every day since May 8 when it paid the feds about $1.8 billion to cut its outstanding pandemic unemployment...
The California Legislature is proposing a program to provide unemployment benefits to illegal immigrants coming to and residing in the state. Senate Bill 277 by State Senator Maria Elena Durazo (D-Los Angeles) proposes income assistance to unemployed “excluded workers” who...
Last year, Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 951 by Sen. Maria Elena Durazo (D-Los Angeles) to increase the size and scope of the state’s paid family leave (PFL) program. The bill (he vetoed a similar bill the year before during...
When she was California’s Labor Commissioner, Julie Su directed department staff to not cooperate with federal immigration agents if they appeared at any commission office looking for illegal aliens. Su’s 2017 memo also strongly implies that Commission employees should actively...