With the federal government shutdown over, the California Employment Development Department has released unemployment numbers for the month of December, just a couple of weeks after releasing results ...

Kim Tanner, a marketing consultant, sits in front of her computer at home in Carlsbad on Oct. 11, 2024. Tanner kept detailed records after she says funds she received from the California Employment ...

The Employment Development Department inaccurately estimated the amount of unemployment benefits paid to ineligible Californians in recent years, a recent report from the California State Auditor ...

The pandemic stress tested all sorts of boundaries for state government, not the least of which were the limits of its critical benefits systems, like those offered through the California Employment ...

California experienced significant layoffs and its unemployment remained above 5% for 19 consecutive months, according to the UCLA Anderson School of Management. But what was the 2025 job market like?

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