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Billions to the Bad Guys

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A Mark Fiore cartoon featuring a crowd of unemployed people opposite a crowd of "fully-employed" scammers and fraudsters.

A state auditor slammed California's unemployment agency, again, reporting that the Employment Development Department could have prevented paying out $11 billion (and counting) in fraudulent claims.

While the beleaguered department has been handing out unemployment benefits to crooks, legitimately unemployed people are struggling to get their claims processed.

The only thing worse than an inept EDD are the fraudsters preying on the department's ineptitude and people in need.

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