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Tag: Pandemic Unemployment Assistance

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,...
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Did Julie Su Lie to the Senate?

August 31, 2023   3:34 pmAugust 31, 2023   3:34 pm
Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su may have lied to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee during her once-meaningful confirmation hearing in April. And countless times before – and after – that. At issue is her claim that...
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Truckers to POTUS: Withdraw DOL Nominee Julie Su

June 23, 2023   6:50 amJune 23, 2023   6:57 am
Thursday two starkly contrasting messages were sent about the stalled confirmation of Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su, California’s failed former Labor and Workforce Development Agency Secretary. It’s the independent truckers versus Lorena Gonzalez. The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association sent a...
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Congress is Fed up with the California EDD

April 26, 2023   6:21 pmApril 27, 2023   6:11 am
Congress is getting fed up with the California EDD, today sending a third request for information regarding its disastrous, fraud-riven pandemic response. In January, the House of Representatives Oversight and Accountability Committee asked EDD chief Nancy Farias to turn over...
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Secretary Su? Say It Ain’t So

March 24, 2023   3:58 pmMarch 24, 2023   3:59 pm
Erstwhile California labor secretary and Employment Development Department chief Julie Su will face a bumpy road in her quest to become the nation’s next Secretary of Labor. President Biden nominated Su at the end of February when former Secretary Marty...
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California EDD Deemed ‘Non-Responsive’ by Congressional Committee

March 24, 2023   2:45 amMarch 24, 2023   6:19 am
A person in a coma is considered to be non-responsive. Unironically, also considered to be non-responsive is California’s Employment Development Department (EDD) when it comes to answering Congressional questions. The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability – which is looking...
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California EDD on Fed Hotseat

February 15, 2023   1:33 pmFebruary 15, 2023   1:49 pm
California’s Employment Development Department is in the crosshairs of Congress’ Committee on Oversight and Accountability for its poor handling of its pandemic benefit programs. It is estimated that $191 billion was lost to “improper payments” across the country by various...
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