California has a new unemployment and disability payment contractor after the state’s multi-billion-dollar pandemic fraud panic. The Employment Development Department hopes it will be the end of an ...

The action most emblematic of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s nearly five years in office is the collapse into chaos of the California Employment Development Department as COVID-19 struck in the spring of 2020.

Problems just keep getting worse at the Employment Development Department. Based on EDD data, the California Legislative Analyst recently warned the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund is going into ...

Sixty-one state lawmakers sent a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday asking for bigger and faster changes to the state’s backlogged, antiquated unemployment system than he promised in his “strike ...