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"content": "\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#resources\">Jump to resources for claimants\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>It was Jan. 26. And after weeks of false starts, San Francisco resident Ruyu Wu finally had a representative from the state Employment Development Department’s ID.me identity verification platform on the phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a video call, actually. The representative wanted to verify Wu's identity face to face. This is a common approach EDD uses to confirm applicants’ information, and a test Wu had to pass to secure her benefits. Her husband, Henry Zhang, was with her. Wu doesn’t have a smartphone, so she has to rely primarily on his iPhone when she needs to do these video calls. [aside tag=\"edd,unemployment-insurance\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In English, the ID.me representative asked Wu — whose first language is Cantonese and speaks barely any English — to confirm her address. When she said it, the representative said he couldn’t understand her, so Zhang tried to assist. Though he primarily speaks Cantonese and some Mandarin, he knows enough English to get by if there's no other option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The guy asked to see my ID and when I showed him and pointed it at the camera, the guy said, ‘No, you know what? I'll find somebody to come and help translate and I'll call back.’ So I asked for someone who could speak Cantonese, preferably, because my wife speaks Cantonese,” Zhang said through a translator. The representative agreed, and said he would call back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, more than three weeks later, Zhang and Wu are still waiting for that call. Zhang is still trying to secure his own benefits after his payments expired towards the end of 2020. EDD has told him he will not be eligible to certify again until March. Meanwhile, Wu's account is locked for fraud concerns and was likely part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11854097/california-suspends-1-4-million-virus-unemployment-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mass freeze of 1.4 million accounts\u003c/a> EDD did in early January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhang and Wu both emigrated from Taishan in China and have been living in San Francisco for many years now. Before the pandemic, Zhang did laundry and janitorial work and Wu was working as a dishwasher at a restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they wait for their payments, the couple is scrimping, Zhang said. They aren’t eating as much as they normally would, trying to make their food stamps last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though EDD does have resources designed to support applicants who speak languages other than English or Spanish, its systems are often so overloaded that people who need this support can’t consistently access it. And the ID.me platform — which EDD implemented to help automate its verification process and unclog the bottlenecks — has created added barriers for those, like Wu, who don’t have easy access to certain technology. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Breaking Down Access Gaps\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Late last year,\u003ca href=\"https://www.capolicylab.org/publications/december-21st-analysis-of-unemployment-insurance-claims-in-california-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> researchers at the California Policy Lab\u003c/a> gathered data on how many Californians were receiving unemployment benefits and, for the first time, broke down the numbers on a neighborhood level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCLA economics professor Till von Wachter led this study and said the contrasts were stark. The study showed that not being a citizen, speaking a language other than English or having gaps in broadband access could interfere with a person’s ability to secure unemployment benefits\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whereas in those communities where there is very good broadband access or where median household income is large, there has been a higher rate of UI (unemployment insurance) receipt,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short: Californians who need these benefits the most are more likely to be the ones who aren’t getting them, and EDD’s infrastructure is amplifying these vulnerabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since she’s been unemployed, Wu spends most days and some nights taking care of her elderly mother-in-law at the mother’s home. There, Wu doesn’t have good cell reception and often worries she'll miss a call from EDD. Or that if a representative does reach her, she won't be able to complete the tasks asked of her on her flip phone. Or maybe EDD will reach out on Zhang's phone when they aren't together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But tech challenges aren't just limited to not having a smartphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say, even for the parts of claims where applicants only need to use a computer, there are still big access gaps. Daniela Urban, executive director of the Center for Workers' Rights in Sacramento, says she has many clients who use public computers to log into their EDD accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So they get to that point where they're being asked to wait for an hour, hour and a half or far more, depending on when they've tried to verify their identity,\" she said, \"And they are simply not able to continue to remain on the internet that long or in a public space that is open with internet access, particularly given the COVID restrictions, you know, where the spaces are already impacted because of limitations on social distancing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860964\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11860964\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47240_002_SanFrancisco_HenryZhang_02162021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47240_002_SanFrancisco_HenryZhang_02162021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47240_002_SanFrancisco_HenryZhang_02162021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47240_002_SanFrancisco_HenryZhang_02162021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47240_002_SanFrancisco_HenryZhang_02162021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47240_002_SanFrancisco_HenryZhang_02162021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Zhang walks near his home in San Francisco on Feb. 16, 2021. \u003ccite>((Beth LaBerge/KQED))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Finding Support\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, Zhang and Wu would have likely just walked the few blocks from their home in San Francisco’s Chinatown to the headquarters of Chinese for Affirmative Action. The advocacy group has become a lifeline for them as they’ve navigated an unemployment claims infrastructure that was built to serve mainly English and Spanish speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAA Community Advocate Amos Lim said normally one of the organization's main focuses is job placement, but its workforce development staff have had to pivot entirely to unemployment support to help fill accessibility gaps perpetuated by EDD. There’s currently a wait list of more than 75 clients who haven’t been able to access language help via EDD, Lim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The support] is severely lacking right now, considering that, you know, a lot of the essential workers are low-wage entry-level workers, and they're mostly from the immigrant community,” Lim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Paul Ong, director of the Center for Neighborhood Knowledge at UCLA, has researched how Asian American communities — and residents of Chinatowns in particular — are faring with their unemployment benefits. And he echoes Lim's concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"During the pandemic, we saw a much more rapid and steeper escalation of the unemployment rate for Asian Americans,\" he said, \"and we saw that particularly for the less educated, those low-wage workers, and they tend to be immigrants.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/UCLALuskin/status/1360262405310218242\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ong says one of the biggest barriers to benefits is obvious — language gaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So if you go, for example, to California's unemployment insurance website, it's in English and there's also a button for Spanish, but there's no button for other languages,\" he said. \"They may provide other material so deeply embedded in the website, I couldn't find it. If I couldn't find it, other people can’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, EDD confirmed that its site is geared only to English and Spanish speakers — though it has dedicated phone lines for English, Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin and Vietnamese speakers and 162 call center reps that also provide customer services in Arabic, Armenian, Korean, Laotian, Punjabi and Tagalog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But CAA’s Amos Lim said despite what EDD says, people are still having trouble getting through the language access line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’ve tried days and days. If they do get through, they’ll be on hold, nobody picks up, and then the calls get disconnected,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Looking Forward\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite the fact that ID.me is available in 10 languages at state DMVs, where it is also used, the platform is currently only translated in English and Spanish for EDD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Amos Lim, community advocate at Chinese for Affirmative Action']'They’ve tried days and days. If they do get through, they’ll be on hold, nobody picks up, and then the calls get disconnected.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blake Hall, CEO of ID.me, has said he wants the application to be as widely accessible as possible, but neither Hall nor EDD officials have confirmed a clear plan to expand those language resources for unemployed Californians, though it is clearly possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On an EDD media call on Feb. 18, EDD Director Rita Saenz said they're working with other departments to learn about how it can better expand language access. She also indicated that other changes are on the horizon but didn't provide much more detail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And new legislation is seeking to relieve at least some of the burdens people like Henry Zhang and Ruyu Wu are facing in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember David Chiu, D-San Francisco, introduced \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB401\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 401\u003c/a> earlier this month. The bill would require EDD to identify the language needs of claimants, increase multilingual phone lines and mandate EDD communicate with claimants in their preferred language in a timely way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the state attorney general's office, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/consumers/limited-english#:~:text=More%20than%20200%20languages%20and,cultural%20barriers%20can%20leave%20consumers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">7 million Californians report speaking English \"less than very well\u003c/a>.\" And Chiu's office says 2.4 million Californians don't speak English or Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These adjustment may incur extra expenses for the state, Chiu said, but \"this is a small price to pay to ensure that we're not effectively shutting out 7 million people from receiving unemployment benefits and particularly given immigrants and people of color have been particularly hard hit during this pandemic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the bill passes, it sets July 2022 as the deadline for implementing these measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860968\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11860968\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47249_011_SanFrancisco_HenryZhang_02162021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47249_011_SanFrancisco_HenryZhang_02162021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47249_011_SanFrancisco_HenryZhang_02162021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47249_011_SanFrancisco_HenryZhang_02162021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47249_011_SanFrancisco_HenryZhang_02162021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47249_011_SanFrancisco_HenryZhang_02162021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Zhang in San Francisco's Chinatown on Feb. 16, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it's still unclear how people with tech challenges like Zhang and Wu will be able to get any relief going forward — unless call volumes decrease significantly and it's easier to reach representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Dr. Paul Ong says EDD reaching out to better understand the needs of the communities that are currently being left behind is key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A final plea is to have the Employment Development Department work more closely with the community groups and with other researchers,\" Ong said. \"We really need to understand in much more detail the magnitude and the patterns of these inequalities and what's driving it. We're not going to solve it without understanding that.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"resources\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Multilingual Resources\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>These organizations provide multilingual assistance in applying for unemployment benefits. Below is their contact information, and the languages in which they offer support:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Northern California:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://oewd.org\">San Francisco’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development\u003c/a>: Its hotline is available for workers impacted by pandemic-related hardships in Cantonese, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog and Vietnamese.\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Call: 415-701-4817 or email: workforce.connection@sfgov.org\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.vydc.org\">Southeast Asian Development Center:\u003c/a> Available in Lao, Vietnamese and Thai.\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Call: 415-771-2600\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Oakland's Alem Center for Integration, supporting Eritrean & Ethiopian communities: Available in Tigrinya and Amharic.\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Call: 510-904-4305 or 415-779-2274\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>These organizations can provide support in Cantonese and Mandarin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.advancingjustice-alc.org\">Asian Law Caucus\u003c/a>: 415-896-1701\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://caasf.org\">Chinese for Affirmative Action\u003c/a>: 415-598-8508\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cpasf.org\">Chinese Progressive Association\u003c/a>: 415-391-6986\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://legalaidatwork.org\">Legal Aid at Work\u003c/a>: 866-864-8208\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://lsnc.net\">Legal Aid of Northern California\u003c/a>:\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Sacramento: 916-551-2150\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Redding: 530-241-3565\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Vallejo: 707-643-0054\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Southern California:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://arswestusa.org/causes/\">Armenian Relief Society\u003c/a>: Available in Arabic, Armenian, Farsi, French, Russian and Spanish.\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Call: 818 241 7533\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In-person help available by appointment. Offices in Glendale, Pasadena and Hollywood.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Central Valley: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.firminc.org\">Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries (FIRM)\u003c/a>: Available in Arabic, Hmong, Lao, Khmer and Russian.\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Call: 559-487-1500\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Breaking Down Access Gaps\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Late last year,\u003ca href=\"https://www.capolicylab.org/publications/december-21st-analysis-of-unemployment-insurance-claims-in-california-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> researchers at the California Policy Lab\u003c/a> gathered data on how many Californians were receiving unemployment benefits and, for the first time, broke down the numbers on a neighborhood level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCLA economics professor Till von Wachter led this study and said the contrasts were stark. The study showed that not being a citizen, speaking a language other than English or having gaps in broadband access could interfere with a person’s ability to secure unemployment benefits\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whereas in those communities where there is very good broadband access or where median household income is large, there has been a higher rate of UI (unemployment insurance) receipt,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short: Californians who need these benefits the most are more likely to be the ones who aren’t getting them, and EDD’s infrastructure is amplifying these vulnerabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since she’s been unemployed, Wu spends most days and some nights taking care of her elderly mother-in-law at the mother’s home. There, Wu doesn’t have good cell reception and often worries she'll miss a call from EDD. Or that if a representative does reach her, she won't be able to complete the tasks asked of her on her flip phone. Or maybe EDD will reach out on Zhang's phone when they aren't together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But tech challenges aren't just limited to not having a smartphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say, even for the parts of claims where applicants only need to use a computer, there are still big access gaps. Daniela Urban, executive director of the Center for Workers' Rights in Sacramento, says she has many clients who use public computers to log into their EDD accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So they get to that point where they're being asked to wait for an hour, hour and a half or far more, depending on when they've tried to verify their identity,\" she said, \"And they are simply not able to continue to remain on the internet that long or in a public space that is open with internet access, particularly given the COVID restrictions, you know, where the spaces are already impacted because of limitations on social distancing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860964\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11860964\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47240_002_SanFrancisco_HenryZhang_02162021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47240_002_SanFrancisco_HenryZhang_02162021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47240_002_SanFrancisco_HenryZhang_02162021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47240_002_SanFrancisco_HenryZhang_02162021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47240_002_SanFrancisco_HenryZhang_02162021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47240_002_SanFrancisco_HenryZhang_02162021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Zhang walks near his home in San Francisco on Feb. 16, 2021. \u003ccite>((Beth LaBerge/KQED))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Finding Support\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, Zhang and Wu would have likely just walked the few blocks from their home in San Francisco’s Chinatown to the headquarters of Chinese for Affirmative Action. The advocacy group has become a lifeline for them as they’ve navigated an unemployment claims infrastructure that was built to serve mainly English and Spanish speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAA Community Advocate Amos Lim said normally one of the organization's main focuses is job placement, but its workforce development staff have had to pivot entirely to unemployment support to help fill accessibility gaps perpetuated by EDD. There’s currently a wait list of more than 75 clients who haven’t been able to access language help via EDD, Lim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The support] is severely lacking right now, considering that, you know, a lot of the essential workers are low-wage entry-level workers, and they're mostly from the immigrant community,” Lim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Paul Ong, director of the Center for Neighborhood Knowledge at UCLA, has researched how Asian American communities — and residents of Chinatowns in particular — are faring with their unemployment benefits. And he echoes Lim's concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"During the pandemic, we saw a much more rapid and steeper escalation of the unemployment rate for Asian Americans,\" he said, \"and we saw that particularly for the less educated, those low-wage workers, and they tend to be immigrants.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blake Hall, CEO of ID.me, has said he wants the application to be as widely accessible as possible, but neither Hall nor EDD officials have confirmed a clear plan to expand those language resources for unemployed Californians, though it is clearly possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On an EDD media call on Feb. 18, EDD Director Rita Saenz said they're working with other departments to learn about how it can better expand language access. She also indicated that other changes are on the horizon but didn't provide much more detail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And new legislation is seeking to relieve at least some of the burdens people like Henry Zhang and Ruyu Wu are facing in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember David Chiu, D-San Francisco, introduced \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB401\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 401\u003c/a> earlier this month. The bill would require EDD to identify the language needs of claimants, increase multilingual phone lines and mandate EDD communicate with claimants in their preferred language in a timely way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the state attorney general's office, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/consumers/limited-english#:~:text=More%20than%20200%20languages%20and,cultural%20barriers%20can%20leave%20consumers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">7 million Californians report speaking English \"less than very well\u003c/a>.\" And Chiu's office says 2.4 million Californians don't speak English or Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These adjustment may incur extra expenses for the state, Chiu said, but \"this is a small price to pay to ensure that we're not effectively shutting out 7 million people from receiving unemployment benefits and particularly given immigrants and people of color have been particularly hard hit during this pandemic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the bill passes, it sets July 2022 as the deadline for implementing these measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860968\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11860968\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47249_011_SanFrancisco_HenryZhang_02162021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47249_011_SanFrancisco_HenryZhang_02162021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47249_011_SanFrancisco_HenryZhang_02162021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47249_011_SanFrancisco_HenryZhang_02162021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47249_011_SanFrancisco_HenryZhang_02162021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47249_011_SanFrancisco_HenryZhang_02162021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Zhang in San Francisco's Chinatown on Feb. 16, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it's still unclear how people with tech challenges like Zhang and Wu will be able to get any relief going forward — unless call volumes decrease significantly and it's easier to reach representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Dr. Paul Ong says EDD reaching out to better understand the needs of the communities that are currently being left behind is key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A final plea is to have the Employment Development Department work more closely with the community groups and with other researchers,\" Ong said. \"We really need to understand in much more detail the magnitude and the patterns of these inequalities and what's driving it. We're not going to solve it without understanding that.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"resources\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Multilingual Resources\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>These organizations provide multilingual assistance in applying for unemployment benefits. Below is their contact information, and the languages in which they offer support:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Northern California:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://oewd.org\">San Francisco’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development\u003c/a>: Its hotline is available for workers impacted by pandemic-related hardships in Cantonese, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog and Vietnamese.\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Call: 415-701-4817 or email: workforce.connection@sfgov.org\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.vydc.org\">Southeast Asian Development Center:\u003c/a> Available in Lao, Vietnamese and Thai.\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Call: 415-771-2600\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Oakland's Alem Center for Integration, supporting Eritrean & Ethiopian communities: Available in Tigrinya and Amharic.\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Call: 510-904-4305 or 415-779-2274\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>These organizations can provide support in Cantonese and Mandarin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.advancingjustice-alc.org\">Asian Law Caucus\u003c/a>: 415-896-1701\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://caasf.org\">Chinese for Affirmative Action\u003c/a>: 415-598-8508\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cpasf.org\">Chinese Progressive Association\u003c/a>: 415-391-6986\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://legalaidatwork.org\">Legal Aid at Work\u003c/a>: 866-864-8208\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://lsnc.net\">Legal Aid of Northern California\u003c/a>:\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Sacramento: 916-551-2150\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Redding: 530-241-3565\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Vallejo: 707-643-0054\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Southern California:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://arswestusa.org/causes/\">Armenian Relief Society\u003c/a>: Available in Arabic, Armenian, Farsi, French, Russian and Spanish.\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Call: 818 241 7533\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In-person help available by appointment. Offices in Glendale, Pasadena and Hollywood.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Central Valley: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.firminc.org\">Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries (FIRM)\u003c/a>: Available in Arabic, Hmong, Lao, Khmer and Russian.\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Call: 559-487-1500\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In 1777, five families of mixed Mexican and African heritage arrived in Alta California with the Spanish to help establish \u003ca href=\"https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/a-year-in-the-life-of-a-spanish-colonial-pueblo-san-jos%C3%A9%C2%A0de-guadalupe-in-1809-history-san-jose/qgJCEgJtbqBZLw?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They grew the food for the presidios, the military installations in the Bay Area,” explains local historian Jan Batiste Adkins, who’s written \u003ca href=\"https://www.africanamericanhistories.com/\">three books\u003c/a> on the history of African Americans in the Bay Area. Adkins says those are the first Black families in the South Bay she’s found records for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She notes there have historically been very few African Americans who have lived on the Peninsula and in the South Bay. This explains the relative lack of awareness of their cultural and economic contributions to those areas, particularly compared to those of the much larger Black communities in San Francisco and Oakland. But that’s not to say the South Bay’s Black communities have not been influential, from “since before the beginning,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexico abolished slavery in 1829, but it took the United States until 1865 to officially do so. And although California was admitted to the Union in 1850 as a “free state,” the experience of Black residents here was complicated. There was even a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/los-angeles-1850s-slave-market-is-now-the-site-of-a-federal-courthouse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slave market\u003c/a> in Los Angeles. Some Southerners who came to California after the Gold Rush brought slaves with them, and a number of them subsequently sued to secure their freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11860514\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/040-Pop-Harris-new-adj.jpeg\" alt=\"James Williams was brought to California as a slave to mine in Sacramento Valley. Once he earned enough money, Williams was able to buy his freedom and moved to Murphy Ranch in Milpitas in 1852. Later he started his own business and operated freight teams between Hollister and San Francisco.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/040-Pop-Harris-new-adj.jpeg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/040-Pop-Harris-new-adj-800x541.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/040-Pop-Harris-new-adj-1020x689.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/040-Pop-Harris-new-adj-160x108.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Williams was brought to California as a slave to mine for gold in the Sacramento Valley. Once he earned enough money, Williams was able to buy his freedom and moved in 1852 to Murphy Ranch in Milpitas. Later he started his own business and operated freight teams between Hollister and San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Santa Clara City Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Many of the families that came here came as freed men and women from the East Coast. Many of them [also] came as slaves, and found freedom here in California,” Adkins says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>First Draft of Black History\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the mid-19th century, a number of Black newspapers, like the \u003ca href=\"https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=cl&cl=CL1&sp=PA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pacific Appeal\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83027100/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mirror of the Times \u003c/a>and the \u003ca href=\"https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=cl&cl=CL1&sp=EL&\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elevator\u003c/a>, emerged in San Francisco. Today, they remain a treasure trove of tidbits of early Black history in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider this plea for subscriptions in the very first issue of the Pacific Appeal, in April 1862:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Reader! Our first number is before you. Will you sustain us in our infant enterprise? We have engaged in an undertaking which requires pecuniary outlay, energy, perseverance and ability. We have “Set our boat before the blast, Our breast before the gun,” and while there is a breeze to swell our canvas we will continue our voyage; — while we have a hand to wield a weapon (the pen,) we will battle against oppression and injustice. Will you support us?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“I just fell in love with reading about the history of African Americans,” Adkins said. “Those newspapers were published in San Francisco, and those newspapers carried the stories of local pioneers, not only in San Francisco, but in the entire Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>African Americans in the South Bay built homes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/07/28/san-joses-historic-antioch-baptist-church-marks-a-milestone/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">churches\u003c/a> and schools. They were \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/goldchains/explore/archy-lee.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abolitionists\u003c/a> before the Civil War, and sued for civil rights afterward. But the community was tiny, less than 100 people through much of the 19th century, according to Adkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"tommie-smith\"]That changed with the Great Migration beginning in the early 20th century, as African Americans from southern and midwestern states seeking new economic opportunities were drawn to cities like San Jose, Palo Alto and Milpitas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After World War II, some African Americans who had first arrived elsewhere in the Bay Area for military manufacturing jobs, later moved to the South Bay and the Peninsula for other industrial work, especially at \u003ca href=\"https://milpitashistoricalsociety.org/milpitas-history/milpitas-street-names/gross-street/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ford Motor Company\u003c/a> in Milpitas. A number of large technology companies, like IBM, were also hiring, as were local \u003ca href=\"https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2017/02/23/city-to-honor-distinguished-african-american-leaders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">governments\u003c/a> and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But newly arrived African Americans quickly discovered they were shut out from living in most South Bay neighborhoods due to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/18486/redlining\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">redlining\u003c/a>” and other discriminatory local housing policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were some exceptions, however, although few and far between. Adkins says some companies, like IBM, built worker housing where Black employees and their families could stay. And legendary Bay Area real estate developer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11635574/how-joseph-eichler-introduced-stylish-housing-for-the-masses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joseph Eichler\u003c/a> famously did not discriminate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1259px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11860517 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/037-jordanellington_0005.jpeg\" alt=\"The Jordan family poses for a photo in 1948. John Jordan settled in North San Jose in 1909, and was a leader in of the city's Antioch Baptist Church, itself established in 1893. \" width=\"1259\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/037-jordanellington_0005.jpeg 1259w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/037-jordanellington_0005-800x610.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/037-jordanellington_0005-1020x778.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/037-jordanellington_0005-160x122.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1259px) 100vw, 1259px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Jordan family poses for a photo in 1948. John Jordan settled in North San Jose in 1909 and was a leader in the city’s Antioch Baptist Church, which was established in 1893. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Robert Ellington)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1967, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/harry-edwards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harry Edwards\u003c/a>, a young San Jose State University faculty member and former student athlete, organized a demonstration on the first day of fall semester to protest the lack of student housing available to Black football players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former KQED host Belva Davis, then with KPIX, \u003ca href=\"https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/230943\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported\u003c/a>, “Protesting groups have given the administration until 11 a.m. Friday to do something about the situation, or else they say they’ll stop the coming weekend football game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]The president of the university ultimately canceled that game, and campus activism for racial equality continued to grow throughout the late 1960s. Most famously, San Jose State sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711644/black-power-the-1968-olympics-and-the-san-jose-state-students-who-shook-the-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">raised their clenched fists\u003c/a> in a Black Power salute while receiving their medals during the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City — a protest against racial discrimination back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, though, the explosive growth of Silicon Valley and the concurrent explosion in real estate prices have driven many Black residents out of the South Bay. Roughly 55,000 African Americans now live in Santa Clara County, \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/santaclaracountycalifornia\">less than 3%\u003c/a> of the total population, according to U.S. census figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adkins says her research into the local history of African Americans has convinced her there are many more fascinating stories hidden in the state’s archives and family attics that must be discovered and told.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My feeling,” she says, “is if we do not write our history, if we do not document our history, who will?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In 1777, five families of mixed Mexican and African heritage arrived in Alta California with the Spanish to help establish \u003ca href=\"https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/a-year-in-the-life-of-a-spanish-colonial-pueblo-san-jos%C3%A9%C2%A0de-guadalupe-in-1809-history-san-jose/qgJCEgJtbqBZLw?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They grew the food for the presidios, the military installations in the Bay Area,” explains local historian Jan Batiste Adkins, who’s written \u003ca href=\"https://www.africanamericanhistories.com/\">three books\u003c/a> on the history of African Americans in the Bay Area. Adkins says those are the first Black families in the South Bay she’s found records for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She notes there have historically been very few African Americans who have lived on the Peninsula and in the South Bay. This explains the relative lack of awareness of their cultural and economic contributions to those areas, particularly compared to those of the much larger Black communities in San Francisco and Oakland. But that’s not to say the South Bay’s Black communities have not been influential, from “since before the beginning,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexico abolished slavery in 1829, but it took the United States until 1865 to officially do so. And although California was admitted to the Union in 1850 as a “free state,” the experience of Black residents here was complicated. There was even a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/los-angeles-1850s-slave-market-is-now-the-site-of-a-federal-courthouse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slave market\u003c/a> in Los Angeles. Some Southerners who came to California after the Gold Rush brought slaves with them, and a number of them subsequently sued to secure their freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11860514\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/040-Pop-Harris-new-adj.jpeg\" alt=\"James Williams was brought to California as a slave to mine in Sacramento Valley. Once he earned enough money, Williams was able to buy his freedom and moved to Murphy Ranch in Milpitas in 1852. Later he started his own business and operated freight teams between Hollister and San Francisco.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/040-Pop-Harris-new-adj.jpeg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/040-Pop-Harris-new-adj-800x541.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/040-Pop-Harris-new-adj-1020x689.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/040-Pop-Harris-new-adj-160x108.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Williams was brought to California as a slave to mine for gold in the Sacramento Valley. Once he earned enough money, Williams was able to buy his freedom and moved in 1852 to Murphy Ranch in Milpitas. Later he started his own business and operated freight teams between Hollister and San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Santa Clara City Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Many of the families that came here came as freed men and women from the East Coast. Many of them [also] came as slaves, and found freedom here in California,” Adkins says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>First Draft of Black History\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the mid-19th century, a number of Black newspapers, like the \u003ca href=\"https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=cl&cl=CL1&sp=PA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pacific Appeal\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83027100/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mirror of the Times \u003c/a>and the \u003ca href=\"https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=cl&cl=CL1&sp=EL&\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elevator\u003c/a>, emerged in San Francisco. Today, they remain a treasure trove of tidbits of early Black history in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider this plea for subscriptions in the very first issue of the Pacific Appeal, in April 1862:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Reader! Our first number is before you. Will you sustain us in our infant enterprise? We have engaged in an undertaking which requires pecuniary outlay, energy, perseverance and ability. We have “Set our boat before the blast, Our breast before the gun,” and while there is a breeze to swell our canvas we will continue our voyage; — while we have a hand to wield a weapon (the pen,) we will battle against oppression and injustice. Will you support us?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“I just fell in love with reading about the history of African Americans,” Adkins said. “Those newspapers were published in San Francisco, and those newspapers carried the stories of local pioneers, not only in San Francisco, but in the entire Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>African Americans in the South Bay built homes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/07/28/san-joses-historic-antioch-baptist-church-marks-a-milestone/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">churches\u003c/a> and schools. They were \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/goldchains/explore/archy-lee.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abolitionists\u003c/a> before the Civil War, and sued for civil rights afterward. But the community was tiny, less than 100 people through much of the 19th century, according to Adkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, and Monique Limón, D-Santa Barbara, would prohibit new permits for hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, and block companies from renewing existing permits for the controversial technique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal would do the same for several other oil production methods, but not for traditional oil and gas drilling, which is responsible for most petroleum production in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The techniques subject to the moratorium would be barred altogether starting in 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is time that California’s leaders take on the state’s behemoth oil industry,” Ann Alexander, a senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in a statement announcing the proposal along with the two state lawmakers. [pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='State Sen. 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They note that some of the methods, like fracking, can cause earthquakes, water contamination and oil spills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Extracting massive amounts of oil, particularly with destructive techniques such as fracking, is totally inconsistent with California’s commitment to a sustainable climate future,” Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s time to transition away from these oil extraction methods, protect our community’s health and water supply, and create a brighter future for out state and our planet,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry groups representing oil companies will likely lobby aggressively against any new limits on oil production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Western States Petroleum Association and the California Independent Petroleum Association have said in the past that proposals to ban fracking and other drilling techniques will mean oil workers will suffer and California’s reliance on fuel from sources outside of the country will increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups say bans on oil drilling will hurt consumers; that demand for gasoline in the state is too high to cut down on oil production; and that California is not set up yet energize enough electric cars and will need to rely on fossil fuel for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also say environmentalists have misled the public about the dangers of well stimulation often done deep under the ground, far away from drinking water sources, and in remote parts of Kern County. 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The division would offer incentives to well remediation contractors to hire former oil workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last September, Gov. Gavin \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839533/gov-newsom-wants-to-ban-gas-powered-car-sales-by-2035-is-this-a-big-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newsom called on state lawmakers\u003c/a> to develop legislation that would eliminate new fracking licenses by 2024 — but at least one top state lawmaker wants to go further. [aside tag=\"fracking\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. 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The controversial oil well stimulation method works to get fuel out of the ground by using water and chemicals to crack open geological formations, injections that allow petroleum under the ground to flow more freely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hydraulic fracturing led to the production of 2.3 million barrels of oil in California, or 1.5% of the state’s oil production, in 2019, according to CalGEM’s most recent available data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state started issuing fracking permits in 2016 under \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 4\u003c/a>. Last July, the state put in place a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11810791/after-9-month-pause-california-issuing-fracking-permits-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">months-long moratorium\u003c/a> on new fracking permits while independent experts conducted a review of the agency’s pending well stimulation permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cyclic steaming, which would also eventually be banned under the new bill, accounted for 21% of California’s oil production in 2019. 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"content": "\u003cp>California officials gave a nod to Kaiser Permanente’s reputation for efficiency when they \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Letter-of-Intent-with-Kaiser.pdf?_gl=1*18hxzr7*_ga*NzI4NDMzNTEuMTU4MjA0NjY1NQ..\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently selected\u003c/a> it to help speed vaccine rollout. 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In addition, Santa Clara County has separately penalized the hospital for not immediately reporting an outbreak in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser is appealing all 12 of the state’s citations, as well as the county-issued fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s misleading to interpret these citations to signal any ongoing serious infractions of current public health guidelines at Kaiser Permanente,” Marc Brown, a Kaiser spokesman, said in an emailed statement. “In fact, these citations stem mainly from allegations much earlier in the pandemic, as health care systems including ours grappled with national shortages and evolving public health guidance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser’s medical centers, he added, are a safe place to work and receive care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2020/10/kaiser-cal-osha-citation-failing-to-treat-covid-airborne/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first reported\u003c/a> an incoming wave of citations for Kaiser in October, following the first fine issued to its psychiatric hospital in Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state imposed the largest penalty, $87,500, on Kaiser’s San Leandro Medical Center for not immediately reporting to Cal/OSHA when one employee was hospitalized in May and for not limiting the reuse of N95 respirators, among several other violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/9b5ce597-4fd5-43f5-bce6-57f47e20af6d?src=embed\" title=\"kaiser citations\" width=\"800\" height=\"712\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA began citing Kaiser facilities in October, months after receiving complaints. 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It could be its practices, but also its size, and its employees may be more willing to speak up about hazards, Stock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is a citation it’s probably because someone filed an OSHA complaint,” Stock said. “Kaiser is a unionized workplace and there are workers who are educated on these issues and really on top of these things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One violation labeled as “serious” in Cal/OSHA’s citation to Oakland Medical Center, for example, found that the hospital did not provide employees from an oncology unit with N95 respirators when they entered an area with patients confirmed or suspected of having COVID-19. The hospital also failed to ensure each employee passed a “fit test” to ensure employees’ respirators fit properly, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/coronavirus/citations/11.06.2020_Kaiser-Permanente-Oakland-Medical-Center_1474630.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the citation.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA also found that Kaiser’s Redwood City Medical Center did not inform and train employees that surgical masks do not protect against inhalation of infectious aerosols — N95 respirators are needed instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser’s San Jose Medical Center failed to notify employees “with significant exposures in a reasonable timeframe” and didn’t provide a medical evaluation to those exposed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/coronavirus/citations/11.23.2020-Kaiser-Foundation-Hospital-DBA-Kaiser-San-Jose-Medical-Center_1476073.pdf\">according to the citation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a later and separate incident, Santa Clara County fined the San Jose hospital $43,000 for not immediately reporting an outbreak in its emergency department on Christmas Day. \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/07/kaiser-san-jose-fined-43000-as-investigation-into-christmas-costume-covid-outbreak-continues/\">That incident\u003c/a> has been linked to an employee dressed in an air-powered inflatable tree costume, who was COVID positive but unaware of that. Kaiser is appealing that fine, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"kaiser, kaiser permanente, health\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Federal health guidance about COVID-19 safety has evolved throughout the pandemic. Yet California already had strict workplace safety rules in place for hospitals and other health settings that should have protected employees from the very beginning, even when little was known about the virus, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In spring 2009, California adopted the Aerosol Transmissible Diseases (ATD) standard. Under development for several years, it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/title8/5199.html\">unanimously approved\u003c/a> by the Cal/OSHA Standards Board soon after the first cases of the H1N1 virus were detected in the state. 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That same hospital also failed to investigate exposure incidents between May and August, the citation reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout most of last year, nurses and other health workers organized rallies and protests demanding more protection from Kaiser and other hospitals. Amy Arlund, an intensive care nurse at Kaiser Fresno Medical Center and member of the California Nurses Association, said nurses aren’t as interested in fines as they are in enforcement and improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She alleged that at her hospital, for example, when their battery-operated respirators break down, it’s hard to get replacements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of nurses are carrying around their own rolls of duct tape to put these things back together when they’re falling apart,” Arlund told CalMatters in November. “We use what we have way beyond its usage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees at Kaiser Fresno have filed several complaints. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California officials gave a nod to Kaiser Permanente’s reputation for efficiency when they \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Letter-of-Intent-with-Kaiser.pdf?_gl=1*18hxzr7*_ga*NzI4NDMzNTEuMTU4MjA0NjY1NQ..\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently selected\u003c/a> it to help speed vaccine rollout. But a review of worker safety citations shows Kaiser has had its own pandemic troubles, failing to adequately protect its employees early on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Permanente has on multiple occasions failed to provide hospital employees the gear or training needed to protect them from COVID-19, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/COVID19citations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to 12 citations\u003c/a> issued by California’s enforcer of workplace safety laws, Cal/OSHA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has issued more citations against Kaiser than any other health care employer in California, fining it almost $500,000. In addition, Santa Clara County has separately penalized the hospital for not immediately reporting an outbreak in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser is appealing all 12 of the state’s citations, as well as the county-issued fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s misleading to interpret these citations to signal any ongoing serious infractions of current public health guidelines at Kaiser Permanente,” Marc Brown, a Kaiser spokesman, said in an emailed statement. “In fact, these citations stem mainly from allegations much earlier in the pandemic, as health care systems including ours grappled with national shortages and evolving public health guidance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser’s medical centers, he added, are a safe place to work and receive care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2020/10/kaiser-cal-osha-citation-failing-to-treat-covid-airborne/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first reported\u003c/a> an incoming wave of citations for Kaiser in October, following the first fine issued to its psychiatric hospital in Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state imposed the largest penalty, $87,500, on Kaiser’s San Leandro Medical Center for not immediately reporting to Cal/OSHA when one employee was hospitalized in May and for not limiting the reuse of N95 respirators, among several other violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/9b5ce597-4fd5-43f5-bce6-57f47e20af6d?src=embed\" title=\"kaiser citations\" width=\"800\" height=\"712\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA began citing Kaiser facilities in October, months after receiving complaints. The short-staffed agency has been inundated with COVID-related complaints. Between February and September of last year, it conducted \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2020/10/cal-osha-response-covid-complaints/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on-site inspections for only 5%\u003c/a> of almost 7,000 pandemic complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost half of Cal/OSHA’s citations to hospitals are directed at Kaiser. But it’s difficult to know for sure why Kaiser has been disciplined the most, said Laura Stock, director of the Labor Occupational Health Program at UC Berkeley. It could be its practices, but also its size, and its employees may be more willing to speak up about hazards, Stock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is a citation it’s probably because someone filed an OSHA complaint,” Stock said. “Kaiser is a unionized workplace and there are workers who are educated on these issues and really on top of these things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One violation labeled as “serious” in Cal/OSHA’s citation to Oakland Medical Center, for example, found that the hospital did not provide employees from an oncology unit with N95 respirators when they entered an area with patients confirmed or suspected of having COVID-19. The hospital also failed to ensure each employee passed a “fit test” to ensure employees’ respirators fit properly, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/coronavirus/citations/11.06.2020_Kaiser-Permanente-Oakland-Medical-Center_1474630.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the citation.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA also found that Kaiser’s Redwood City Medical Center did not inform and train employees that surgical masks do not protect against inhalation of infectious aerosols — N95 respirators are needed instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser’s San Jose Medical Center failed to notify employees “with significant exposures in a reasonable timeframe” and didn’t provide a medical evaluation to those exposed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/coronavirus/citations/11.23.2020-Kaiser-Foundation-Hospital-DBA-Kaiser-San-Jose-Medical-Center_1476073.pdf\">according to the citation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a later and separate incident, Santa Clara County fined the San Jose hospital $43,000 for not immediately reporting an outbreak in its emergency department on Christmas Day. \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/07/kaiser-san-jose-fined-43000-as-investigation-into-christmas-costume-covid-outbreak-continues/\">That incident\u003c/a> has been linked to an employee dressed in an air-powered inflatable tree costume, who was COVID positive but unaware of that. Kaiser is appealing that fine, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Federal health guidance about COVID-19 safety has evolved throughout the pandemic. Yet California already had strict workplace safety rules in place for hospitals and other health settings that should have protected employees from the very beginning, even when little was known about the virus, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In spring 2009, California adopted the Aerosol Transmissible Diseases (ATD) standard. Under development for several years, it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/title8/5199.html\">unanimously approved\u003c/a> by the Cal/OSHA Standards Board soon after the first cases of the H1N1 virus were detected in the state. According to this \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/title8/5199.html\">ATD standard\u003c/a>, any novel or unknown pathogen is to be handled as if it could be transmitted by aerosols until proven otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is the only state in the country with this standard. And experts say this standard has helped Cal/OSHA hold health employers accountable during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s aerosol standard requires employers to provide personal protective equipment that protects against aerosols, train employees about this type of transmission and notify them of any possible exposure. This state standard went beyond early pandemic guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which didn’t formally acknowledge the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/scientific-brief-sars-cov-2.html\">airborne transmission\u003c/a> of coronavirus until October. For months, the federal agency focused on droplet transmission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Special protection is required to protect against viruses that can transmit via smaller aerosolized particles. For example, in Cal/OSHA’s citation to Kaiser San Francisco, the agency notes that the hospital did not require employees to use \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/images/hcp/N95-infographic-What-Are-APR-508.png?noicon\">powered air-purifying respirators\u003c/a> during “high hazard” procedures that generate aerosols, like intubations. According to the ATD standard, N95 masks are not enough protection for those types of procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the San Leandro location, employees who were given powered air-purifying respirators were handed defective units held together by tape, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/coronavirus/citations/01.04.2021-Kaiser-Foundation-KaiserPermanenteSanLeandro_1479549.pdf\">according to the citation\u003c/a>. That same hospital also failed to investigate exposure incidents between May and August, the citation reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout most of last year, nurses and other health workers organized rallies and protests demanding more protection from Kaiser and other hospitals. Amy Arlund, an intensive care nurse at Kaiser Fresno Medical Center and member of the California Nurses Association, said nurses aren’t as interested in fines as they are in enforcement and improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She alleged that at her hospital, for example, when their battery-operated respirators break down, it’s hard to get replacements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of nurses are carrying around their own rolls of duct tape to put these things back together when they’re falling apart,” Arlund told CalMatters in November. “We use what we have way beyond its usage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees at Kaiser Fresno have filed several complaints. Arlund said Cal/OSHA inspectors have visited her hospital, but as of Friday, no citations had been issued against Kaiser’s Fresno hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Leer en \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2021/02/como-el-edd-y-bank-of-america-ganan-millones-con-el-desempleo-en-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">español\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She didn’t know it at the time, but last September was when everything started to unravel for Julie Hansen. It was late in the month when the furloughed Disneyland candy maker noticed a string of suspicious charges totaling $12,222.23 on her state-issued Bank of America unemployment debit card. First, the money was credited back to her account. Then it disappeared again, setting in motion a chain of events that left her and her son homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858834\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 715px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11858834\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Julie_Hansen.png\" alt=\"Image of Julie and son\" width=\"715\" height=\"791\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Julie_Hansen.png 715w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Julie_Hansen-160x177.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julie Hansen with her son. The pair has stayed in Hansen’s Fiat and with friends while she fights for nearly $13,000 tied up in her frozen state-issued Bank of America unemployment debit card. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Julie Hansen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Behind the scenes, California’s Employment Development Department and longtime debit card contractor Bank of America were \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2020/12/who-will-pay-for-all-of-californias-unemployment-fraud/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scrambling to rein in rampant fraud\u003c/a>. They froze some 350,000 unemployment accounts around the time Hansen’s card was cut off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The catch: while Hansen and other out-of-work Californians were left in financial purgatory unable to access unemployment money, a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2020/11/how-bank-of-america-helped-fuel-californias-unemployment-meltdown/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Great Recession-era contract\u003c/a> ensured that the state and the bank kept raking in millions of dollars in merchant fees whenever debit cards still in circulation were swiped. In September, the EDD made $5.2 million on a debit card revenue sharing agreement with Bank of America — a sizable chunk of the $22.5 million the state raked in from March to October, according to public records requested by CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much money did Bank of America make on its end of the deal? The state says it doesn’t know, and the bank won’t say, despite a contract requirement to report unemployment debit card fees and revenue each month. “EDD does not track BofA’s revenue,” the agency told CalMatters. The bank declined to comment on its unemployment revenue and financial reporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is essentially a nifty little hidden kickback scheme,” said Assembly Member Jim Patterson, a Republican from Fresno. “This is becoming far too familiar. 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Instead, the two parties split revenue on merchant transaction fees when the cards are swiped, and the bank charges limited consumer fees for things like ATM use or rush shipping on new debit cards. The contract specifies only that the state’s share of the fee revenue will “assist in offsetting program costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bank was supposed to report at least monthly on any fees earned and its average revenue, according to the contract provided by the state. But when CalMatters asked for those reports, the state said it did not have any records on bank fees. The agency said only that Bank of America made $37.8 million in transaction fees during 2013 — a figure disclosed as part of a bond estimate in a year when California paid out a sliver of the record \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2020-128and628.1/introduction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$111 billion\u003c/a> in unemployment benefits from March to December last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[ad fullwidth]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m stunned that EDD doesn’t know,” Patterson said, “and I’m not sure that I believe that they don’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bank of America said it suspended some consumer fees, including rush shipping charges, in the spring. The bank declined to comment on transaction fees. Faiz Ahmad, managing director of transaction services for Bank of America, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2021/01/bank-of-america-lost-hundreds-of-millions-on-california-unemployment-fiasco/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told lawmakers last week\u003c/a> that despite any money the bank may have made during the pandemic, it “lost hundreds of millions of dollars on the contract” last year due to fraud and a need to hire more customer service workers to respond to complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Wendy Carrillo, Democratic Assembly Member, Los Angeles\"]‘Bank of America’s contract with EDD belongs to California’s taxpayers. Its contents are not secret. They belong to the public record.’[/pullquote] \u003c/span>“Bank of America’s contract with EDD belongs to California’s taxpayers,” said Assembly Member Wendy Carrillo, a Democrat from Los Angeles. “Its contents are not secret. They belong to the public record.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lauren Saunders, associate director of the National Consumer Law Center, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nclc.org/images/pdf/pr-reports/report-prepaid-card-2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">studied unemployment debit card contracts\u003c/a> including the one Bank of America has in California. She found that many states are “not paying any attention” to fees earned by banks — a lack of transparency that makes it hard to know how much unemployed workers are paying to use their benefit money — but that California’s revenue sharing agreement appears to be unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Banks have to make money. They are selling a product,” Saunders said. “What’s more unusual is the state making money. That’s because California is such a big market and there was so much interchange revenue that the bank was willing to share some with the state, but that money should go back into making sure that people aren’t paying fees and to making sure that people get the money where they want to get it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Long Fight\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As fall turned to winter, Hansen tried everything she could think of to get her missing unemployment money back. She spent hours on hold with the bank, then called the state when she was told it was an identity verification issue. After waiting hours longer to get through to the state agency, and often hung up on in the process, she was told that she needed to call the bank. She called politicians and posted online, and briefly saw the account reopened just long enough for another $672 to post to the account, only to have the card frozen again. [aside tag=\"unemployment\" label=\"More Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By December, it was too late. Hansen and her son slept in her Fiat or stayed with friends after they were forced to leave their two-bedroom rental in the Inland Empire to avoid eviction proceedings. There were no Christmas presents that month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody helps. They blame it on each other,” Hansen said. “I don’t know if they’re trying to make it to where I just don’t fight anymore, but that’s $13,000.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stories like Hansen’s, where both the state and the bank have added to confusion, make the prospect of unraveling California’s unemployment crisis more daunting. In Sacramento, both Democrats and Republicans have proposed legislation to add a direct deposit option for claimants, crack down on fraud and strengthen oversight. Bank of America’s current contract ends this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to refunding legitimate unemployment claimants caught up in the mess, Patterson worries about tax bills and unsuspecting people asked to repay the government for benefits paid out to fraudsters. He said lawmakers are weighing requirements for the agency to act fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, unemployment claimants accused Bank of America in a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/01/bank-of-america-sued-over-edd-unemployment-debit-card-fraud/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">class-action lawsuit filed last month\u003c/a> of putting them at risk of debit card fraud. The bank argues that the “vast majority” of fraud during the pandemic involved fraudulent unemployment applications that the state failed to catch, rather than debit card fraud. While lawmakers and the state auditor press for more details on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2021/01/how-edd-failed-to-detect-fraud/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">up to $31 billion in total fraud\u003c/a>, Saunders said it’s also possible that federal watchdogs like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could get involved if the bank fails to provide claim documentation or timely credits for fraud as required by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re found not to have complied,” Saunders said, “then the bank would be responsible to reimburse the consumers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With no full reopening in sight for Disneyland, Hansen has taken to making boxes of toffee, chocolate strawberries and peanut brittle in a friend’s kitchen for anyone who still has $10 or $20 to spend. She was mailed one paper unemployment check for $1,000 in January — enough to pay for her son’s medication and the car they were living in — and the family recently moved into a rented room while she fights for the rest of the missing money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hansen says, “There’s gotta be an easier way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Feb. 5, 2021\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past 14 years, Chevron has donated more than a million dollars to Republican members of Congress who voted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, according to an analysis of federal campaign finance data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The KQED-commissioned analysis, by \u003ca href=\"https://maplight.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MapLight\u003c/a>, looked into political contributions the San Ramon-based oil giant, its employees and its political action committee made between 2007 and 2020 to any of the 147 Republican U.S. senators and representatives who objected to the Electoral College count on Jan. 6 to certify Joe Biden's presidential election. On the same day, far-right, mainly white supporters of former President Trump, violently attacked and invaded the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley-based nonpartisan group, which tracks the influence of money in politics, found that Chevron, its workers and its PAC donated over $1.1 million to 97 of those GOP legislators during that time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chevron's political donations belie a philosophy that there's nothing wrong with the status quo of the oil industry — and that petroleum is the future of American energy,\" said Paasha Mahdavi, an assistant professor of political science at UC Santa Barbara, who specializes in energy and environmental politics, and examined Maplight's data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Paasha Mahdavi, assistant professor of political science at U.C. 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We are working to help achieve that goal by reducing our carbon intensity, increasing renewables and offsets, and investing in low-carbon technologies. We recognize the findings of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that the use of fossil fuels contributes to increases in global temperatures. We support the Paris Agreement and well-designed climate change and energy policy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, executives for several large U.S. corporations have said they would either halt or review political donations to lawmakers who voted to overturn the election after the violent mob attacked the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an earlier statement, Comey said the company is looking into the issue:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We continue our practice of regularly reviewing our policies, procedures and expenditures for political activities, including political contributions,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Recent events will be part of our review process. Chevron supports political candidates that take positions on a range of topics,\" Comey said. \"We are not always aligned with all their views, but it is important for us to be part of discussions on important issues, including respect for the rule of law and well-designed climate change and energy policy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahdavi says that if Chevron does not change its political donations, it would send a clear message to members of Congress, that \"we [Chevron] don't care what you stand for as long as you support unabated oil and gas development with little concern to climate change.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, the political tides in Washington are changing. Several days ago President Biden\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/president-biden-takes-office/2021/01/27/960941799/biden-to-pause-oil-and-gas-leasing-on-public-lands-and-waters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> signed an executive order\u003c/a> to start halting new oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters. 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"content": "\u003cp>What is the deal with GameStop?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a good chance you’ve heard that question many times in the past few days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more than 5,000 stores, GameStop is a video game chain where customers can buy, sell and trade their games, consoles and gaming accessories. It’s a mall staple, but shopping centers have been struggling for years, and the coronavirus pandemic has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/23/894598832/another-bankruptcy-at-the-mall-parent-company-of-ann-taylor-loft-is-latest-to-fa\">devastating for retailers\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then a most unexpected and weird thing happened. GameStop’s stock has soared to unbelievable heights lately. Topping $400 per share earlier Thursday, it was up more than 2,000% so far in this young year, including a 134% jump on Wednesday alone. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it continues to be a bumpy ride for investors. By late Thursday morning, GameStop shares had fallen 63% to $126 after some brokers imposed trading limits on the stock. The stock later recovered but closed at $193.60 — a 44% loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sen. Elizabeth Warren\"]‘For years, the same hedge funds, private equity firms, and wealthy investors dismayed by the GameStop trades have treated the stock market like their own personal casino while everyone else pays the price.’[/pullquote]Most of GameStop stock gyrations have to do with a tug of war between \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/28/961470054/hottest-stock-on-wall-street-struggling-video-game-store-gamestop\">amateur day traders on Reddit\u003c/a>, one of the world’s largest online communities — who are betting on the stock to keep rising — and the professional managers of Wall Street hedge funds, who have bet that GameStop’s stock will crater. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s easy to see the downside for GameStop, a company that has \u003ca href=\"https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-12-08-gamestop-has-closed-462-stores-so-far-this-year-783-since-last-year\">closed 783 stores\u003c/a> in two years and faces stiff headwinds. More and more game and console sales are happening online and through its competitors — Walmart, Target, Best Buy and Amazon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how has GameStop suddenly become the darling investment of online traders from Reddit’s wallstreetbets forum?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Wired \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/gamestop-stock-wall-street-bets-short-squeeze/\">reported\u003c/a>: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>” ‘It was a meme stock that really blew up,’ said WallStreetBets moderator Bawse1. ‘The massive short contributed more toward the meme stock.’ GameStop seemed so utterly doomed that the current situation was actually sort of funny to the subreddit’s denizens. Banded together, WallStreetBets members bought in big enough to move the stock.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, a hedge fund called Melvin Capital closed out its short position in GameStop after taking \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/27/hedge-fund-targeted-by-reddit-board-melvin-capital-closed-out-of-gamestop-short-position-tuesday.html\">a big loss\u003c/a>, CNBC reported. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/28/961619848/so-what-is-short-selling-an-explainer\">Short sellers\u003c/a> profit when a stock goes down. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4o40Zv2rzc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another short seller, Andrew Left of Citron Research, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS4yPsmaDDQ\">in a video\u003c/a> on Wednesday that he had covered most of his short position in GameStop at a loss. Last week, Left had predicted the stock would drop to $20 a share, from $40 at the time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had no idea what that would set off,” Left said. “This has captured the attention of … America and every trader and non-trader alike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melvin Capital and Citron were caught in what’s known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/27/961291455/gamestop-and-the-short-squeeze\">a short squeeze\u003c/a>, forcing the funds to buy more GameStop stock to cover their losses, which ended up driving the stock price even higher. This has happened before, most famously with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/16/796328145/electric-burn-those-who-bet-against-elon-musk-and-tesla-are-paying-a-big-price\">Tesla stock\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GameStop rally came after investors saw glimmers of hope for the company this month when the chain changed the makeup of its board of directors. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 11, GameStop announced that its sales overall fell 3.1% during the holidays, due in part to the “significant impacts” of the pandemic, but its e-commerce sales soared \u003ca href=\"https://news.gamestop.com/news-releases/news-release-details/gamestop-reports-2020-holiday-sales-results\">more than 300%\u003c/a>. It said those online sales represented about a third of the company’s total sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also said it had entered an agreement with RC Ventures, one of its largest stockholders, to add \u003ca href=\"https://news.gamestop.com/news-releases/news-release-details/gamestop-announces-additional-board-refreshment-accelerate\">three members\u003c/a> to GameStop’s board of directors. The new members include Ryan Cohen, a founder of Chewy, an online pet products company worth $42 billion. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then on Jan. 13, two days after the announcement about Cohen joining the board, GameStop stock jumped 57% — from $19.95 per share to $31.40. The stock got its big kick when Reddit’s r/wallstreetbets community — now with more than 4 million members — fawned over a Nov. 16 \u003ca href=\"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326380/000101359420000821/rc13da3-111620.pdf\">letter from Cohen\u003c/a> to the GameStop board he would later join. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GameStop continued to soar as the Reddit investors stayed bullish on their favorite stock. By Jan. 22, it closed at $65. On Monday, it finished at nearly $77. On Tuesday, it nearly doubled to close at around $148. And Wednesday, it more than doubled, ending at $347.51.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/planetmoney/status/1354918048721903616?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those Reddit members, it’s not just about making money. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s also kind of a populist thing happening here with a lot of these traders, judging by the Reddit threads. You know, they just want to poke a middle finger at Wall Street,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/27/961291455/gamestop-and-the-short-squeeze\">says Paddy Hirsch\u003c/a> of NPR’s \u003cem>The Indicator From Planet Money\u003c/em> podcast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GameStop’s stock symbol is GME. On Reddit, one member of wallstreetbets, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l6s5er/gme_is_about_more_than_just_money_gme_is_about/\">wrote\u003c/a> early Thursday: “GME is about sending a message. … For all the recessions they caused. For all the jobs and homes people have lost. For all the people that can’t pay for college because minimum wage has stagnated while wall street gets rich. For all the retail traders they left holding the bag. For all the times they got bailed out with our tax money while we got nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another member suggested that the Reddit traders were part of a resistance movement of sorts, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l6u96y/gme_price_has_nothing_to_do_with_fundamentals_and/\">writing\u003c/a>, “[T]his is not a war on billionaires, the wealthy yada yada, but it may well be described as a resistance against injustice, inequality, rigged rules, uneven playing field etc which has been rampant on Wall Street forever.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wallstreetbets member, who vowed not to sell GameStop, wrote late Wednesday: “I am proud to be a part of this piece of history with you. … Call it an opportunity, call it revenge, or justice, I know we are on the right side of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., a member of the House Financial Services Committee, weighed in on the GameStop phenomenon. “Gotta admit it’s really something to see Wall Streeters with a long history of treating our economy as a casino complain about a message board of posters also treating the market as a casino,” the lawmaker \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1354536220110577664?s=20\">tweeted\u003c/a> Thursday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1354536220110577664?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it hasn’t stopped with GameStop. Other companies that are suffering heavily during the pandemic are seeing their shares soar as people on Reddit’s wallstreetbets talk them up. The companies include \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/27/22251964/amc-stock-price-reddit-wallstreetbets-trading-gamestop\">AMC Entertainment\u003c/a>, the beleaguered theater chain, which shot up more than 300% on Wednesday (before dropping 56% Thursday), and \u003ca href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/american-air-surges-most-two-192239009.html\">American Airlines\u003c/a>, which soared more than 30% Thursday morning (it closed up 9%). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinhood, a popular trading platform for young traders based in Menlo Park, announced Thursday that “in light of recent volatility” it was \u003ca href=\"https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/1/28/keeping-customers-informed-through-market-volatility\">restricting transactions\u003c/a> for certain securities, including GameStop and AMC, and raising margin requirements. It later said it planned to allow “\u003ca href=\"https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/1/28/an-update-on-market-volatility\">limited buys\u003c/a>” of these securities, starting Friday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"South Bay Rep. Ro Khanna\"]‘[The GameStop saga] has demonstrated the power of technology to democratize access to American financial institutions, ultimately giving far more people a say in our economic structures.’[/pullquote]Robinhood’s stated goal is to “democratize” investing and to bring more regular people into investing. The company has forced huge, ground-shaking changes for the brokerage industry, such as its decision to charge zero commissions for customers trading stocks and exchange-traded funds. That’s why some users took Thursday’s actions as an affront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one lawsuit was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in New York claiming Robinhood manipulated the market by restricting investors’ access to trading GameStop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinhood investor Carlos Amaya said the app’s action Thursday was a disappointment to users like him who prided themselves on being a “different breed of investors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 28-year-old school operations manager in Washington, D.C., said his parents immigrated from El Salvador and he was the first person in his family to buy stocks when he started using the app in 2017. He’s since made several thousand dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We pride ourselves in the name Robinhood because we’re trying to make more money and be the next people at the top,” he said. “You would expect Robinhood to let us do our thing instead of blocking us and saying it’s for our protection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RoKhanna/status/1354835649250078722?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Bay Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said the GameStop episode “has demonstrated the power of technology to democratize access to American financial institutions, ultimately giving far more people a say in our economic structures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Thursday, Khanna called for “more regulation and equality in the markets,” and accused Wall Street of spending billions to “crush” GameStop and “put workers out of business” instead of investing in future technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mania has gone global, “whipsawing stocks from Amsterdam to Sydney,” Bloomberg \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-28/gamestop-mania-prompts-surge-in-australia-s-most-shorted-stocks\">reported\u003c/a>. “In Europe, short-seller favorites including Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield jumped 20% or more. E-commerce giant Rakuten Inc. and baby-care goods maker Pigeon Corp. climbed at least 6.9% in Tokyo on Thursday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the stock market near all-time highs, there had already been worries that a bubble was coming. “The danger, as the dot-com bubble showed, is that Mr. Market can rationalize just about anything and build it into a narrative,” \u003cem>The Wall Street Journal\u003c/em>‘s Jon Sindreu \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jonsindreu/status/1354441066511015938?s=20\">wrote\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The frenzy over GameStop has gotten the attention of other lawmakers and regulators. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, the incoming chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said Thursday that he planned to call \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SenSherrodBrown/status/1354881250922819585?s=20\">a hearing\u003c/a> on the “current state of the stock market.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>As state officials frantically work to review hundreds of thousands of frozen unemployment accounts for fraud, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2020-128and628.1/summary.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new report\u003c/a> from the California state auditor found that the state unemployment department’s inefficiency and lack of advanced planning continue to create delays — and the department is still not doing all it needs to in order to correct the issue. But reports from the Employment Development Department indicate this figure has already increased with more fraud being verified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report is a response to a request for an emergency audit from the state’s Joint Legislative Audit Committee. State legislators responded Tuesday by asking for an oversight hearing focused on ensuring the Employment Development Department implements the auditor’s recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit comes one day after EDD confirmed it has paid out at least $11 billion worth of fraudulent unemployment benefits since the beginning of the pandemic. A good chunk of claims are still being reviewed, and Labor Secretary Julie Su says the agency expects the number of fraudulent claims will continue to increase. [aside tag=\"EDD,jobless-benefits\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no sugarcoating the reality,\" Su said at a press event Monday. \"California did not have sufficient security measures in place to prevent this level of fraud, and criminals took advantage of the situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, California district attorneys announced that \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-24/california-has-sent-jobless-benefits-to-death-row-inmates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a scam ring centered out of state and county correctional facilities\u003c/a> had bilked the state out of hundreds of millions in fake benefits. The figure reported Monday exceeds \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-15/unemployment-benefit-fraud-california-billions-edd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">earlier, already staggering estimates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of 2020, as part of an effort to prevent future hacks, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11854097/california-suspends-1-4-million-virus-unemployment-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EDD froze 1.4 million accounts\u003c/a> in what one advocate called “the New Year’s Eve freeze.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, EDD spokesperson Loree Levy said she could not confirm how many of those frozen accounts have since been verified as legitimate. But she could confirm that a little over 300,000 applicants had provided the requested verification information to reactivate their accounts. This does not necessarily mean they have gotten their money yet, but they should be much closer to getting paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also means the accounts and benefits of more than 1 million people are still in limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857149\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11857149\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46745_004_RedwoodCity_BankofAmericaFraud_01252021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46745_004_RedwoodCity_BankofAmericaFraud_01252021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46745_004_RedwoodCity_BankofAmericaFraud_01252021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46745_004_RedwoodCity_BankofAmericaFraud_01252021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46745_004_RedwoodCity_BankofAmericaFraud_01252021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46745_004_RedwoodCity_BankofAmericaFraud_01252021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gregory Collins works in a friend's garden in Redwood City on Jan. 25, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Frozen but Not a Fraudster\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Though EDD is unable to confirm how many legitimate applicants have been impacted by its attempts to fight fraud, advocates say the numbers are significant. And some applicants have been both victims of fraud \u003cem>and\u003c/em> victims of the unemployment agency’s efforts to prevent it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gregory Collins of Redwood City is one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, Collins worked as a tech contractor. He’s been trying to hustle and find work since he got laid off last spring. But Collins, in his early 50s, says his age creates an additional barrier in the already anemic job market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he hasn’t just confined his search to his field. Several months ago, he applied at In-N-Out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a vegetarian and there’s nothing there that I actually eat, so not even a free meal there would appeal to me, but it was close and I thought, until things get better,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He didn’t get the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857130\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11857130\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Greg-Mom-800x1067.jpeg\" alt=\"Greg Collins with his mother, who passed away while he was navigating Bank of America's circuitous fraud process.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Greg-Mom-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Greg-Mom-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Greg-Mom-840x1120.jpeg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Greg-Mom-687x916.jpeg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Greg-Mom-414x552.jpeg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Greg-Mom-354x472.jpeg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Greg-Mom.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gregory Collins with his mother, who passed away while he was navigating Bank of America's circuitous fraud process. \u003ccite>((Courtesy Greg Collins))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the end of last year, Collins was one of those 1.4 million accounts EDD froze to fight future fraud. In mid-January, he was able to verify his claim and restart his payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite that, Collins said it feels like two steps forward, 5,000 steps back. Because every benefit check he gets goes towards paying off the debt that fraudsters racked up when they hacked his benefits account last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the beginning of September, Collins’ Bank of America debit card — through which he receives his benefits — got breached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The irony, he says, is that Collins himself had triggered freezes on his own account for everyday purchases. But when hackers used his card to make more than 50 fraudulent transactions in Southern California, there was no alert from Bank of America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the middle of all this, his mom passed away. And because of the fraud, Collins couldn’t afford to get back to Ohio, where she lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was just no way I could do it without the funds,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The claims process took months, countless hours on the phone and required filing police reports. By mid-November, Collins thought he was finally in the clear, but he wasn’t. A month later, Bank of America sent him a letter saying, after a review, the bank had decided that there were no fraudulent charges on his account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 667px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11857122\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Greg-Denial-Ltr-2.jpg\" alt=\"Denial letter from Bank of America dated Dec. 14, 2020. \" width=\"667\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Greg-Denial-Ltr-2.jpg 667w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Greg-Denial-Ltr-2-160x61.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denial letter from Bank of America dated Dec. 14, 2020. \u003ccite>((Courtesy Gregory Collins))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Collins called the bank for clarification, he didn’t get much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just said, ‘Oh, well, just resubmit your claim for reconsideration.’ But I'm like, what was the problem with the first, you know, submission?’ ” he said. The representative said they were unable to provide Collins with more context for his denial and that bank staff would get to his submission as soon as they could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bank of America spokesman Bill Halldin said the bank has beefed up the call center team that handles inquiries on EDD cards to expedite processing times. But, as of late January, Collins is still waiting to hear back on the reconsideration request he submitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he’s not the only unemployment recipient who’s exasperated as a result of his experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In mid-January, a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/01/bank-of-america-sued-over-edd-unemployment-debit-card-fraud/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new lawsuit\u003c/a> filed out of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco alleged Bank of America didn’t do enough to protect EDD account holders. Like Collins, the plaintiff in the case says she has yet to be reimbursed for unauthorized transactions on her EDD debit card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a chance that the hacking of Collins’ debit card, and the freezing of his EDD account last year, are linked, said Daniela Urban, founder of the Center for Workers’ Rights in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We've been hearing more and more about problems like this, where ... the claimant \u003cem>themselves\u003c/em> have reported the fraud and all that did was make it more difficult for that claimant to receive the payments,\" she said. 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That accounts for about 140,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, \u003ca href=\"https://cuiab.ca.gov/Statistics/quickStats/Outcomes_July-Dec_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new data from the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board\u003c/a> shows almost 40% of appeals filed between July and December 2020 were related to claims denied because applicants didn’t submit appropriate ID documents on time. Of those cases, CUIAB granted almost 90% of the appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short: More than 30,000 applicants weren't getting their money when they should have been because of EDD’s errors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, EDD extended the timeline for applicants to submit their ID verification documents after numerous reports of delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CA_EDD/status/1352775661908226049\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When ID.me can’t verify a user via document uploads, applicants are referred to a video call service. 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The figure reported Monday exceeds \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-15/unemployment-benefit-fraud-california-billions-edd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">earlier, already staggering estimates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of 2020, as part of an effort to prevent future hacks, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11854097/california-suspends-1-4-million-virus-unemployment-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EDD froze 1.4 million accounts\u003c/a> in what one advocate called “the New Year’s Eve freeze.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, EDD spokesperson Loree Levy said she could not confirm how many of those frozen accounts have since been verified as legitimate. But she could confirm that a little over 300,000 applicants had provided the requested verification information to reactivate their accounts. This does not necessarily mean they have gotten their money yet, but they should be much closer to getting paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also means the accounts and benefits of more than 1 million people are still in limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857149\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11857149\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46745_004_RedwoodCity_BankofAmericaFraud_01252021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46745_004_RedwoodCity_BankofAmericaFraud_01252021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46745_004_RedwoodCity_BankofAmericaFraud_01252021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46745_004_RedwoodCity_BankofAmericaFraud_01252021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46745_004_RedwoodCity_BankofAmericaFraud_01252021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46745_004_RedwoodCity_BankofAmericaFraud_01252021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gregory Collins works in a friend's garden in Redwood City on Jan. 25, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Frozen but Not a Fraudster\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Though EDD is unable to confirm how many legitimate applicants have been impacted by its attempts to fight fraud, advocates say the numbers are significant. And some applicants have been both victims of fraud \u003cem>and\u003c/em> victims of the unemployment agency’s efforts to prevent it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gregory Collins of Redwood City is one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, Collins worked as a tech contractor. He’s been trying to hustle and find work since he got laid off last spring. But Collins, in his early 50s, says his age creates an additional barrier in the already anemic job market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he hasn’t just confined his search to his field. Several months ago, he applied at In-N-Out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a vegetarian and there’s nothing there that I actually eat, so not even a free meal there would appeal to me, but it was close and I thought, until things get better,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He didn’t get the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857130\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11857130\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Greg-Mom-800x1067.jpeg\" alt=\"Greg Collins with his mother, who passed away while he was navigating Bank of America's circuitous fraud process.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Greg-Mom-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Greg-Mom-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Greg-Mom-840x1120.jpeg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Greg-Mom-687x916.jpeg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Greg-Mom-414x552.jpeg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Greg-Mom-354x472.jpeg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Greg-Mom.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gregory Collins with his mother, who passed away while he was navigating Bank of America's circuitous fraud process. \u003ccite>((Courtesy Greg Collins))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the end of last year, Collins was one of those 1.4 million accounts EDD froze to fight future fraud. In mid-January, he was able to verify his claim and restart his payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite that, Collins said it feels like two steps forward, 5,000 steps back. Because every benefit check he gets goes towards paying off the debt that fraudsters racked up when they hacked his benefits account last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the beginning of September, Collins’ Bank of America debit card — through which he receives his benefits — got breached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The irony, he says, is that Collins himself had triggered freezes on his own account for everyday purchases. But when hackers used his card to make more than 50 fraudulent transactions in Southern California, there was no alert from Bank of America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the middle of all this, his mom passed away. And because of the fraud, Collins couldn’t afford to get back to Ohio, where she lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was just no way I could do it without the funds,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The claims process took months, countless hours on the phone and required filing police reports. By mid-November, Collins thought he was finally in the clear, but he wasn’t. A month later, Bank of America sent him a letter saying, after a review, the bank had decided that there were no fraudulent charges on his account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 667px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11857122\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Greg-Denial-Ltr-2.jpg\" alt=\"Denial letter from Bank of America dated Dec. 14, 2020. \" width=\"667\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Greg-Denial-Ltr-2.jpg 667w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Greg-Denial-Ltr-2-160x61.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denial letter from Bank of America dated Dec. 14, 2020. \u003ccite>((Courtesy Gregory Collins))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Collins called the bank for clarification, he didn’t get much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just said, ‘Oh, well, just resubmit your claim for reconsideration.’ But I'm like, what was the problem with the first, you know, submission?’ ” he said. The representative said they were unable to provide Collins with more context for his denial and that bank staff would get to his submission as soon as they could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bank of America spokesman Bill Halldin said the bank has beefed up the call center team that handles inquiries on EDD cards to expedite processing times. But, as of late January, Collins is still waiting to hear back on the reconsideration request he submitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he’s not the only unemployment recipient who’s exasperated as a result of his experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In mid-January, a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/01/bank-of-america-sued-over-edd-unemployment-debit-card-fraud/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new lawsuit\u003c/a> filed out of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco alleged Bank of America didn’t do enough to protect EDD account holders. 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