Newsome Drags California To Hell
(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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