Earlier this year, Julie Su’s federal Department of Labor essentially forgave California its $32.6 billion debt caused directly by the massive defrauding of the state’s unemployment agency, the EDD. That debt was created when Su was the state’s labor secretary...
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...
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...
As Acting Secretary of Labor, Julie Su has a very big eraser and she just used it wipe out her own $32.6 billion dollar mistake. While she was California’s Secretary of Labor, Su oversaw the California Employment Development Department –...
The California Employment Development Department admits that $55 billion was lost in the pandemic. $55 Billion. That’s what the hapless state unemployment agency – the not at all ironically named Employment Development Department – now admits was its “overpayment” amount...
A new Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) rule will allow union reps to accompany agency inspections of worksites even if said worksite is non-union. On a media call Thursday afternoon, Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health Doug Parker said...
Sometimes alternate realities are fun. A good movie, an engrossing sci-fi book, thinking ever so briefly what you will do with all that money when the lottery ticket you just bought wins. Harmless escapism and, to be blunt, something...