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(Houston Chronicle)  -  Another 870,000 Americans sought new unemployment benefits last week, as the pandemic’s economic impacts continued to spread pain. 

More than 230,000 claims were in California, which now has stopped accepting new applications for two weeks while it revamps a struggling benefits system — a change that is likely to temporarily skew the state’s job-loss numbers.

Besides regular claims, 630,080 people applied for new pandemic benefits for self-employed people, including 99,824 in California, according to data released Thursday by the Department of Labor.

California claims for the week accounted for more than a quarter of the national totals — far beyond the state’s 12% share of the U.S. population, which economists attribute to the state’s early and prolonged shutdown, as well as its heavy reliance on travel and tourism.

California has 1.6 million pending claims that it will not resolve until late January, according to the report, which said the backlog is now growing by 10,000 claims a day.

“EDD has failed the people it serves in almost every imaginable way,” said Assemblymember David Chiu, D-San Francisco, in a statement.

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(Sacramento Bee)  Randy Karr isn’t sure how soon he’ll be able to reopen the doors at California Family Fitness. All he knows is that being forced to operate a health club chain outdoors — under tents, in parking lots — has made his business suffer.

The same goes for his employees, too: 1,000 of the Orangevale chain’s 1,100 employees remain furloughed as Karr struggles to navigate Gov. Gavin Newsom’s sometimes-confusing guidelines for reopening the California economy.

“There’s just so many inconsistencies,” Karr said.

Labor Day weekend found California’s job market still at the mercy of COVID-19. The state’s economy remains mired in double-digit unemployment more than six months after the coronavirus pandemic prompted the first stay-at-home orders and wiped out millions of jobs.

Even as the national economy shows fresh signs of improvement, Californians are still heading to the unemployment rolls in alarming numbers.

On Thursday, the federal Labor Department reported that 236,784 Californians filed initial claims for unemployment benefits during the week ending Aug. 29. That compared to 196,916 new claims in California the week before.

. . . . layoffs are still occurring as a result of Newsom’s mid-July decision to roll back much of the reopening of the economy during a worrisome spike in COVID-19 infections. Health clubs were among those businesses that could no longer operate indoors.

“The main factor is the renewed lockdown,” Bernick said.

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(MSN) - California has embarked on a new tiered plan for reopening businesses that has some crying foul.

Critics say the system doesn't take into account that some businesses can operate safely even in counties with relatively high numbers of COVID-cases. And it hits some businesses harder than others, even when it appears they perform similar services.

"While certain businesses are allowed to open ... many others continue to be greatly limited, hampered or even closed," said San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond, who held a news conference on the issue Monday. "The state continues to change the targets and move the goal posts."

Gyms remain closed in the most restrictive category, but smaller operations could operate safely and enforce social distancing, Desmond said. Legoland, classified as a theme park, must stay shut while 30 miles south, SeaWorld San Diego can reopen under the "Zoos and Museums" category. It began hosting its "Zoo Days" last weekend.

Then there is the issue of manicurists, who still can't work indoors, while hair salons can. 

"It makes no sense to us," said Mike Vo, board chairman of the Pro Nails Association, an industry group.

The new guidelines, announced late last week by Gov. Gavin Newsom, create a four-tier, color-coded system based on the rates of coronavirus cases in each of California's 58 counties. 

Counties in most of the state, including metropolitan Los Angeles and part of the San Francisco Bay Area, remain in the most severe category. Counties aren't allowed to move to a less restrictive tier for 21 days, to make sure their COVID-19 case trend isn't worsening.

Visalia Vice Mayor Steve Nelsen said customers should be able to decide whether there is a risk of contracting the coronavirus. 

“As an individual, I can decide whether I feel safe to enter or not,” he said. 

To some, the state's guidelines look arbitrary, unrelated to the degree of risk. Some casinos on tribal land have reopened with precautions such as mask requirements and plastic partitions, while those fully under state or local jurisdiction remain closed.

"I think it's devastating," said Kyle Kirkland, president of the California Gaming Association. "The governor's office looks like they are playing with colors."

Los Angeles still wasn't permitting indoor hair cutting.

"It’s absolutely horrifying," said Dani Lyn, owner of Trim a salon in the Studio City section of Los Angeles. "They allow you to open to cut hair, but not in L.A. County."

But it's a race against time. She said the salon is thousands of dollars behind on rent, and with the state's requirement of 21 days to move to the next category, it's a matter of trying to hang on.

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