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I m Winston Gieseke, philanthropy and special sections editor for The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, with the latest California news on this Wednesday.
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California offers COVID-19 vaccines to people 65 and over
The move puts seniors in line along with emergency workers, teachers, childcare providers and food and agriculture workers even as counties complain they already don’t have enough doses to go around.
“There is no higher priority than efficiently and equitably distributing these vaccines as quickly as possible to those who face the gravest consequences,” Newsom said. “To those not yet eligible for vaccines, your turn is coming. We are doing everything we can to bring more vaccine into the state.”
In California: State offers vaccines to all 65+; EDD fraud is worse than thought Winston Gieseke, USA TODAY
I m Winston Gieseke, philanthropy and special sections editor for The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, with the latest California news on this Wednesday.
In California brings you top Golden State stories and commentary from across the USA TODAY Network and beyond. Get it free, straight to your inbox.
California offers COVID-19 vaccines to people 65 and over
The move puts seniors in line along with emergency workers, teachers, childcare providers and food and agriculture workers even as counties complain they already don’t have enough doses to go around.
Legitimate claimants are being mistaken for scammers. They re trained to tell me absolutely zero information because I could be potentially a scammer, said Ben Chrimes of San Jose. They cut the card off. They didn t even allow me to get my money that they had already given to me on the card, Roxzan Macon of Hesperia told us.
Yet people who don t deserve the money are getting it.
Bank of America said last month $2 billion had been paid out in fraudulent unemployment claims.
But Robert Lapsley of the California Business Roundtable says the number is higher way higher.
The state revealed before the pandemic more than 8% of all jobless claims paid between 2016 to 2019 went to scammers.
Emotional roller coaster for jobless man during pandemic ends on a high note
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OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) The latest numbers show state jobless rate at 8.2 percent, but that number is likely to increase with the recent state shutdown.
We followed the journey of one long-time unemployed Oakland man for months. His story may give hope to others.
Black has been unemployed since last year.
He worked in the film industry, but an injury made it impossible to carry around his heavy video camera. The surgeon is telling me I m not going to be able to work without restrictions anymore and my union won t allow me to work if I have restrictions, Black explained.
Technology and Innovation
It’s hard to say the word “innovation” and not think of California. Technology has paced the state’s growth in everything from agriculture and oil to housing, entertainment, and aerospace. California has always been the harbinger of the American future, the promise of ever-greater economic and social progress.
Yet increasingly, many of today’s innovators are fleeing the state. This past week, one half of the company arguably most symbolic of tech development in the state Hewlett Packard Enterprises one part of the now broken-up old Hewlett Packard and focused on lucrative areas like cloud computing and IT infrastructure decided to leave for Houston. Within a week Elon Musk, the latest in the line of truly transformative California tech entrepreneurs, also announced that he would move to Texas, along with Oracle, a Fortune 100 company and global leader in database management. Other recent departures also include more traditional firms as Charles S