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President Trump Targets California’s Overreaching Cap and Trade Program

April 10, 2025 11:35 amApril 10, 2025 12:12 pm

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order that targets California’s climate change laws and policies, specifically naming California’s sketchy Cap and Trade program, which ostensibly facilitates greenhouse gas emission reductions. Trump is promoting “all of the above” energy policy,...

LA Times Angles for High-Speed Rail As ‘Jobs’ Program

December 26, 2024 9:40 amDecember 28, 2024 9:23 am

What a train wreck. The Los Angeles Times is touting how California’s high-speed rail project “trains workers and provides thousands of jobs in the Central Valley.” You read that right. They finally admit that it’s just a union jobs program....

The Unintended Consequences of Proposition 47

November 1, 2024 11:01 amNovember 1, 2024 11:01 am

Since its passage in 2014, Proposition 47 has been touted as a revolutionary step in California’s criminal justice reform. The measure reclassified certain felonies to misdemeanors to decrease incarceration rates and redirect the cost savings into rehabilitation programs. Proponents argued...

Overpayments of California Unemployment Compensation Benefits

October 2, 2024 2:30 amOctober 2, 2024 2:31 am

California’s Unemployment Insurance Code in Division 1, Part 1, Chapter 5, Article 4 deals with overpayments. Section 1375 provides that any person who is overpaid any amount of benefits under this part is liable for the amount overpaid unless any...

Violations of Unemployment Compensation under the UI Code

September 10, 2024 2:30 amSeptember 10, 2024 2:31 am

California’s Unemployment Insurance Code in Division 1, Part 1, Chapter 10, deals with violations of the Unemployment Compensation laws. Section 2101 provides that it is a violation of this chapter to willfully make a false statement or representation, to knowingly...

Disability Compensation General Provisions in the UI Code

September 5, 2024 2:30 amSeptember 5, 2024 2:31 am

In Division 1, Part 2, Chapter 1, California’s Unemployment Insurance Code provides general provisions related to disability compensation. Section 2601 explains that the purpose of this law is to compensate in part for the wage loss sustained by any individual...

Labor Sec. Julie Su Forgives $32.6 Billion in EDD Debt

August 8, 2024 2:53 pmAugust 8, 2024 9:11 pm

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 –...