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Feb 1, 2022 · Prior to the onset of COVID-19, the unemployment rate in California was slightly higher than the national rate, but this gap widened during the pandemic, reflecting the severe effect of the crisis on the state’s economy. The current 5.9 percent unemployment rate is still higher than the pre-pandemic rate.
Nov 21, 2020 · Nov. 20, 2020 Updated 6:09 PM PT. California’s pandemic-plagued economy perked up in October, as employers brought back tens of thousands of furloughed workers. But the state has regained...
Apr 16, 2020 · The relief package passed by Congress last month that you've just mentioned, it does expand unemployment benefits to those kind of workers. But people in California won't be able to apply for...
Jun 18, 2020 · Just last week, 1.5 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits for the first time. One-third of the jobless are still waiting to receive the unemployment benefits for which they applied. If there is one piece of positive news today, it is that Congress acted and it worked. We came together on a bipartisan basis to
Sep 6, 2021 · Nearly 18 months after Congress came to the rescue of jobless Americans, its historic expansion of the nation’s unemployment benefits system expired nationwide this weekend. Lawmakers, who ...
See the latest charts and maps of coronavirus cases, deaths, hospitalizations and vaccinations in Orange County, California.
Jul 23, 2020 · Updated at 11:34 a.m. ET. New claims for unemployment benefits rose last week for the first time in four months — since March 28 — as states began reimposing lockdown restrictions in an effort to...
