Amid California’s unemployment crisis, a tech gold rush
The state’s unemployment agency has signed $236 million in private contracts as jobless workers await benefits. EDD says it needs the outside help. Author: Lauren Hepler (CalMatters), CALmatters Published: 5:11 PM PDT April 5, 2021 Updated: 5:11 PM PDT April 5, 2021
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Stacy Lira was nearly a year into her unofficial job as an unemployment detective when things went from bad to worse.
The 46-year-old mother of three, who lost her job managing an Inland Empire convenience store last spring, was rushed to the hospital in mid-February. She was struggling to breathe after testing positive for COVID-19. But Lira was adamant that she couldn’t leave home without one thing: She needed her carefully filed unemployment records so she could
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The state’s unemployment agency has signed $236 million in private contracts as jobless workers await benefits. EDD says it needs the outside help.
Lea este artículo en español.
Stacy Lira was nearly a year into her unofficial job as an unemployment detective when things went from bad to worse.
The 46-year-old mother of three, who lost her job managing an Inland Empire convenience store last spring, was rushed to the hospital in mid-February. She was struggling to breathe after testing positive for COVID-19. But Lira was adamant that she couldn’t leave home without one thing: She needed her carefully filed unemployment records so she could
In addition to the unpreparedness, the response remained tame as many who stormed the Capitol left
the building. Police in Washington reported a preliminary total of 69 arrests Wednesday, and most were accused of violating the city’s 6 p.m. curfew. U.S. Capitol Police made 14 arrests; 11 were charged with unlawfully entering the Capitol. Between May 30 and June 4 of last year, when Black Lives Matter protests gripped the nation, D.C. Metropolitan Police reported 427 arrests for curfew violations, burglaries, and other “riot-related events,” according to the department. On June 1, when Trump wanted to take a photo in front of St. John’s Church, U.S. Park Police teargassed a crowd of peaceful demonstrators in Lafayette Park to clear the way.