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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. 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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. 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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. 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. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Identity Verification Backlog\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While EDD isn’t able to confirm how many legitimate applicants it has mistakenly frozen through fraud efforts, a few newly released data points provide a window of insight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Applicants are required to verify their identities through a database called ID.me that EDD implemented last October in hopes of minimizing manual processing times that helped to create its still-sizable backlog of unprocessed claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the state audit, in the first two months of ID.me’s use, 20% of the estimated number of legitimate applicants who tried to verify their identities, \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2020-128and628.1/responses.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">were unsuccessful\u003c/a>. 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. Blake Hall, CEO of ID.me, said Monday that 12% — or more than 70,000 people — of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11856760/california-extends-deadline-for-unemployment-claimants-to-verify-identity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">those who’ve verified in the month of January\u003c/a> got referred to the video service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall said the target wait time for video calls is between 30 minutes and two hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system can also be challenging to access for people who don’t have smartphones. And while EDD does offer certain parts of the application process in multiple languages, ID.me is currently only available in English and Spanish for unemployment benefit purposes. But Hall said the company is committed to expanding those language options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Gregory Collins, he said he’s gotten one unemployment benefit payment from EDD since he verified his account earlier this month. It was deducted from his Bank of America debit balance, which is now negative $4,638.23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Derrick Neal moved back to the Los Angeles area from Florida last year, after his mother died, he needed to find a job quickly to keep paying his bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neal, 40, has been working ever since he turned 18, mostly in retail jobs at big chain stores like Walmart and Home Depot. In L.A. last May, he started delivering groceries for the supermarket chain Vons and was surprised how much he enjoyed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He likes arriving at work in the morning and seeing all his routes for the day, he says. Vons provides him with a company phone and a van with compartments that he fills with various delivery items.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Veena Dubal, UC Hastings law professor\"]‘Proposition 22 is essentially a blueprint for how to lower labor standards across the board.’[/pullquote]“It’s like I am bringing the whole store to the customer,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neal says he has felt especially good about doing his job during the pandemic, delivering food to the elderly or sick who would otherwise have to risk their health by going to the grocery store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The job has been a lifeline for him, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There weren’t many people hiring at the start of the pandemic,” Neal said. “So I was happy to get the job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After one of his shifts in December, Neal says he and other non-union delivery employees were called to a meeting by their managers and informed they would all be laid off by the end of February. Independent contractors working through DoorDash were going to take over their jobs, they were told.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was devastating,” Neal said. On top of that, he also had to move out of his apartment that month after his landlord sold the building. Unable to find another place he can afford, he has been living in his car since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neal says he doesn’t understand the company’s decision, particularly given how much delivery work has recently been available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I were able to talk to them, I would just ask them, ‘Why?’ ” Neal said. “Who did the cost analysis on this and deemed that it was more cost efficient to go with independent contractors than the people we already have, that are there day in and day out, blood sweat and tears, going through it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855989\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 968px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Derrick-Neal-e1611086411183.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11855989\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Derrick-Neal-e1611086411183.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"968\" height=\"943\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Derrick-Neal-e1611086411183.png 968w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Derrick-Neal-e1611086411183-800x779.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Derrick-Neal-e1611086411183-160x156.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 968px) 100vw, 968px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derrick Neal, a Vons delivery driver in Los Angeles, says it is devastating to know he will soon lose his job, especially after recently being kicked out of his apartment. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Derrick Neal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vons is one of many grocery chains owned by Albertsons, the second-largest grocery company in the country. Earlier this month, Albertsons announced it would discontinue its in-house delivery services in parts of California and other states starting late February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has not specified how many delivery employees will be replaced by DoorDash contractors, but the United Food and Commercial Workers union estimates it will be in the high hundreds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This decision will allow us to compete in the growing home delivery market more effectively,” Albertsons spokeswoman Christine Wilcox said in a statement. She added, “Albertsons Companies Divisions plans to offer positions to each impacted associate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilcox did not respond to a request for clarification on the nature of these jobs and the process by which they will be offered to delivery employees like Neal. The company has also not provided proof of any legal commitment to offering new jobs, or any guarantees of equivalent pay, benefits and job locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The replacement of employees by contractors is exactly what labor advocates warned would happen with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11843123/prop-22-explained-why-gig-companies-are-spending-huge-money-on-an-unprecedented-measure\">Proposition 22\u003c/a>, which California voters approved in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not surprised that it happened this quickly, because what the Proposition 22 worker category that was created does is significantly lower labor costs for corporations,” said Veena Dubal, a UC Hastings law professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 22 creates a new sub-employee category that allows app-based delivery and transportation gig companies to legally deny workers access to employee benefits like overtime, unemployment insurance and a guaranteed minimum wage. Instead, companies have to offer workers in this category certain watered-down employee benefits like health care subsidies and the option to purchase insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposition was written by DoorDash, Uber, Lyft and other gig companies, which collectively spent over $200 million on the campaign, making it the most expensive ballot measure in state history. Now that the measure is law, it has nullified recent efforts by all three branches of California government to force gig companies to classify their workers as employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dubal says logistics and delivery employees will just be the first to lose their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Proposition 22 is essentially a blueprint for how to lower labor standards across the board,” she said. “For those who have been thinking of this as a whole different type of work, as something that would never affect them, this is really the time to start paying attention. This model of work is coming for you and your job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venture capitalists already see opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shawn Carolan is a partner at Menlo Ventures. In a recent opinion piece titled “What Proposition 22 Now Makes Possible” published on \u003ca href=\"https://www.theinformation.com/articles/what-proposition-22-now-makes-possible\">The Information\u003c/a>, he said there’s potential for this new labor category to extend to fields like nursing, executive assistance, tutoring, programming, agricultural work and even zoo keeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]Executives at most gig companies have always \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3668606\">described their businesses\u003c/a> as “platforms” that connect independent workers to customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that argument doesn’t add up for David Weil, dean of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. 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But in a statement, a spokesperson said the company provided a vital service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“DoorDash has always supported local economies, and as e-commerce and delivery have become even more important for many businesses during these challenging times, we remain committed to helping brick-and-mortar local merchants reach consumers with the best of their neighborhood,” DoorDash spokesman Taylor Bennett said in a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news of Albertsons’ new arrangement with DoorDash has spurred other grocery delivery workers in California to unionize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve told people that I feel so lucky to have this job,” said Leigh Littlefield, a Bay Area delivery worker for Safeway, another grocery chain owned by Albertsons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Littlefield is one of 250 delivery workers for Safeway that just joined the United Food and Commercial Workers International union. 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"content": "\u003cp>McDonald’s employees in Oakland were among hundreds of workers in more than a dozen cities across the country who walked off the job Friday, demanding higher wages and safer pandemic-related working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early afternoon, a caravan of approximately 20 cars of workers and union leaders creeped noisily into the drive-thru of a McDonald’s in Oakland’s Fruitvale District, horns blaring, a banner hung up on the restaurant’s facade imploring Congress to pass another recovery bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Maria Ruiz, McDonald's employee for 20 years\"]‘It’s about time that we stood up for ourselves and fought for better working conditions and for better wages nationwide. 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So it’s been disastrous,” Maria Ruiz, from San Jose, who has worked at a McDonald’s for 20 years, said through an interpreter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We decided to do it on MLK’s birthday because we thought it was appropriate,” Ruiz said. “It’s about time that we stood up for ourselves and fought for better working conditions and for better wages nationwide. It’s in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, California lawmakers authorized a yearly increase in the minimum wage, which will hit $15 an hour for most businesses in 2022 (it just went up to $13). Many cities in the state, including Oakland ($14.14/hour) and others in the Bay Area, have instituted even higher minimums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local organizers noted this progress and said they were joining the national day of action “in solidarity with workers across the country who have not yet won $15 an hour.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers at the rally also demanded more influence on the job and enhanced safety measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of people congregating and working in really close conditions, which is dangerous,” Maria Sabina Alegria, who works at the McDonald’s in downtown Oakland, said through an interpreter. “There’s times where they have to do many things at the same time, because things are not working. 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paid sick leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='labor']In June, workers at a McDonald’s on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland’s Temescal neighborhood \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11824634/oakland-mcdonalds-workers-sue-management-over-covid-19-outbreak\">sued their employer\u003c/a> for unsafe, crowded working conditions that they said resulted in at least 11 workers at the restaurant contracting COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in the summer, outbreaks of the virus were reported at nine other McDonald’s outlets within 15 miles of the Temescal location, with more than 70 workers and their families testing positive or exhibiting symptoms, according to reporters from the investigative \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-15/mcdonalds-fails-manage-covid-outbreaks-seiu-steps-in\">news outlet Reveal\u003c/a>, based on a review of formal complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, McDonald’s — along with many of its franchisees — has 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In June, workers at a McDonald’s on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland’s Temescal neighborhood \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11824634/oakland-mcdonalds-workers-sue-management-over-covid-19-outbreak\">sued their employer\u003c/a> for unsafe, crowded working conditions that they said resulted in at least 11 workers at the restaurant contracting COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in the summer, outbreaks of the virus were reported at nine other McDonald’s outlets within 15 miles of the Temescal location, with more than 70 workers and their families testing positive or exhibiting symptoms, according to reporters from the investigative \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-15/mcdonalds-fails-manage-covid-outbreaks-seiu-steps-in\">news outlet Reveal\u003c/a>, based on a review of formal complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, McDonald’s — along with many of its franchisees — has claimed to be an industry leader in protecting its workers against the virus, imposing multiple safety procedures in consultation with prominent health clinics for advice on how to “further enhance hygiene and cleanliness practices in support of customer and crew safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Reveal reported, complaints filed by McDonald’s employees in 37 states suggest otherwise, depicting many of the chain’s restaurants – both franchises and corporate-owned – as COVID-19 incubators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-4-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11855738\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-4-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1710\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-4-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-4-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-4-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-4-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-4-2048x1368.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_01152021-4-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers hold a banner outside the McDonald’s in the Fruitvale neighborhood as the car caravan inches past. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In California, what we want is for workers to be protected from infection and death that has been way too rampant in fast food since the beginning of the pandemic,” said SEIU International President Mary Kay Henry as she stood in front of a McDonald’s location on Market Street in West Oakland, where the car caravan headed after Fruitvale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She accused the restaurant’s managers of retaliating against workers for complaining about inadequate health and safety conditions, a lack of PPE and not allowing workers to self-quarantine at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so what we’re hoping is today’s strike sends a message to Congress to do the right thing on the emergency relief for all essential workers and everybody in the country,” Henry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The new union at Alphabet, the parent company of Google, launched publicly last week with around 225 workers. Now, according to union leaders, its ranks are north of 700, and growing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the organizers of the Alphabet Workers Union is software engineer Alexander Peterson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peterson remembers how he felt the day he got his software engineering job at Google in 2016. “I was thrilled. It was this magical place where we all work together,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peterson said he totally nerded out on what was going on at the company, like Google’s “\u003ca href=\"https://cloud.google.com/infrastructure\">planet-scale\u003c/a>” computer and its “\u003ca href=\"https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/announcing-googles-grace-hopper-subsea-cable-system\">oceanic cable\u003c/a>” for data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since then, Peterson has become increasingly disenchanted. He participated in a walkout in 2018, when 20,000 Google workers protested the company’s handling of sexual harassment claims, as well its lack of diversity and the second-class status given to the temps and contractors who account for over half of its workers. The following year, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11668872/google-employees-quit-in-protest-over-military-artificial-intelligence-program\">supported his co-workers who opposed Google’s contracts\u003c/a> with the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really want to save Alphabet from itself, stop it from becoming just another one of these huge, inhuman, faceless entities that just bulldozes humanity for the sake of profit,” he said of the nascent union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, some of Peterson’s fellow organizers wrote an \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/opinion/google-union.html\">op-ed for the New York Times\u003c/a> detailing some of their grievances and underscoring their key goal of increasing the amount of influence employees have in the company’s operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Growing Activism in the Silicon Valley\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Although not the first labor movement in Silicon Valley, the formation of the \u003ca href=\"https://alphabetworkersunion.org/\">Alphabet Workers Union\u003c/a> marks the largest organizing effort so far among white collar employees of a prominent tech giant. It comes from years of growing worker activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until now, there have been two tracks of labor organizing in Silicon Valley. The first includes service workers who over the last decade have been fighting for higher pay and better benefits. The second: white collar workers, many of whom have been subjected to a second-class tier as temporary contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, service workers at companies like Apple and Facebook have\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10598627/growing-labor-movement-shakes-up-silicon-valley\"> joined large unions\u003c/a> like the Teamsters and the Service Employees International Union. During a major subcontracting scandal at Microsoft in the 1990s, employees there also formed a small union called the \u003ca href=\"https://washtech.org/\">Washington Alliance of Technology Workers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11853806 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS33537_GettyImages-1056086262-qut-1020x680.jpg'] Following the election of President Trump in 2016, a growing number of software engineers and product developers began to question Silicon Valley contracts with the U.S. military and police departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They formed into activist groups like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11681049/the-latest-tech-disruption-labor-organizing\">Tech Workers Coalition\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11679302/in-a-direct-challenge-to-their-employers-tech-workers-begin-to-organize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> publicly challenged\u003c/a> management decisions. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714714/time-is-up-employee-unrest-grows-at-silicon-valley-companies\">Google walkout\u003c/a> in 2018 was the most dramatic public showing of this growing discontent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, a group of about 80 subcontracted white-collar workers at a Google office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, joined the U.S. Steelworkers union (\u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3zav5/google-contractors-say-their-work-is-being-shipped-to-poland-after-unionizing\">and faced retaliation\u003c/a> as a result.) That same year, employees at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839817/how-a-scrappy-group-of-tech-workers-formed-one-of-the-only-unions-in-the-industry\">Kickstarter formed their own\u003c/a> “enterprise” union, solely for employees of the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone involved in recent Silicon Valley activism has joined the new Google union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those critical of the effort is Amr Gaber, a software engineer at the company who has been involved in worker activism there for years. He has specifically criticized the union’s partnership with the Communications Workers of America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had relationships with a wide range of unions and worker support groups before CWA showed up,” he recently said on Twitter. “But CWA was the only group that pulled these stunts of marking territory and publicly taking credit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the new union doesn’t represent a majority of workers at Google, it’s what’s called a “minority union.” And unlike many other trade unions, it includes a variety of workers, from software engineers to cafeteria staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fledgling union is also not yet recognized by the National Labor Relations Board or by Google itself, which in a statement responding to the union’s formation, said it “would continue engaging directly with all our employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Barriers to Organizing\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley companies like Google have done a lot to make it difficult for workers to form unions, said Chris Tilly, a professor of urban planning at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of barriers to building worker solidarity within Google,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tilly said it used to be easier to organize at places like manufacturing companies, where large numbers of workers were doing similar tasks on similar contracts. But Google, like many other companies, tech and otherwise, has been effective at “fissuring” workers, hiring some as contractors, others as temps and also outsourcing labor around the globe, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workers are in different physical locations and the contractors have different employers, making in-person organizing all the more difficult. They also have a very disparate set of employment statuses at the company — different wages, benefit packages, contracts and protections — creating a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11741371/two-tiered-caste-system-the-world-of-white-collar-contracting-in-silicon-valley\">two-tier class system\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tilly said this makes it particularly tricky to organize workers around common goals. “It also creates all kinds of divisions among workers and it potentially means different groups of workers can be pitted against each other,” he said. Temps, contractors or overseas workers, for instance, may now be seen as a threat to full-time employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concentration of wealth at these companies also plays a role in dampening unionization efforts. Companies like Google and Facebook have been able to generate large profits with a smaller number of full-time employees. They can afford to offer relatively high pay, benefit packages and perks to keep most workers satisfied, without letting them have much say in how the companies operate or what they produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Opposition\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There has also long been an anti-union streak in Silicon Valley, \u003ca href=\"https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/01/google-alphabet-workers-union-tech\">as Jacobin editor Alex Press noted\u003c/a> in an article about the formation of the Google’s union. She referred to a famous quote by Robert Noyce, who co-founded Intel in 1968: “If we had the work rules that unionized companies have, we’d all go out of business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Solana, a venture capitalist at Founders Fund, is an open critic of the new union. The union, he wrote on Twitter, is “appropriating the language of exploited coal miners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1346142918600437760\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others naysayers of the effort have criticized the broad extent of grievances among union members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But labor lawyer and activist Caitlin Vega says what Google workers want is actually not much different from what workers want in any union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every union is about worker power and workers getting a say about what’s happening on the job,” she said. “And I think even when you read back to some of the earliest unions — the unions of teenage girls who were working in garment shops — their demands were also not always simple.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corporations have made unionizing harder by concentrating wealth, fissuring workplaces, subcontracting and relying on temporary workers, Vega said, and the Google union is organized in a way that responds to that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Peterson, the Google software engineer, has one big hope for the union: He wants to send a message to other workers in Silicon Valley that they are not alone.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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People doing tasks for TaskRabbit are called “taskers.” People delivering food for DoorDash are called “dashers.” People gathering up and recharging e-scooters for Lime are called “juicers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A new economic model\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Unlike the “champions” of Taco Bell, or “cast members” of Disney, executives at DoorDash, Uber and the like also claim that their workers are not employees at all, but independent business owners the company is just connecting to clients through an online platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"John Patrick Leary, author of 'Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism'\"]“They conjure a kind of egalitarian, creative, nurturing, healthy workplace — where in almost every case in this country, what you really have is a hierarchical, routine, dull, indifferent, and more and more these days, a toxic and unhealthy workplace.”[/pullquote]Labor lawyer Caitlin Vega said these invented names help bolster this argument. “They [the gig companies] invented these terms to describe the work that they do that I think is meant to capture both that you should be loyal to the company, and yet we don’t owe you anything,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the invented terms at gig companies obscure the labor of workers in a more drastic way than the aggrandizing titles given to employees at companies like Target and Walmart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2013, the marketing team at Lyft pushed this rebranding of work to the extreme. In advertisements, cheery narrators told consumers that Lyft drivers were “your friend with a car.” Customers were encouraged to sit in the front seat and fist-bump drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early Uber marketing material promised drivers they could own their own businesses and work without a boss. In fliers and ads, the company boasted about creating more than 100,000 “entrepreneurs.” The company then adopted the term “driver partners.” Most recently, Uber managers and PR people have been calling workers “earners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These invented terms have legal and economic significance. In 2013, lawyers and executives at Uber and Lyft were able to get the California Public Utilities Commission to write into law an entirely new regulatory category for their business: transportation network companies, or TNCs. 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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-21/oracle-lured-to-texas-by-lower-payrolls-and-labor-pool\">recent news\u003c/a> that Oracle, the second largest software maker in the world, plans to move its corporate headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin has resurrected familiar headlines suggesting that California is finally going to pay for its so-called hostility to business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coming on the heels of the \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/12/01/silicon-valley-exodus-hewlett-packard-enterprise-moving-from-san-jose-to-houston/\">recent announcement\u003c/a> by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, another Silicon Valley marquee company, to move its headquarters to Texas, along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-critical-of-california-leaves-the-state-and-moves-to-texas\">Tesla founder Elon Musk's exodus\u003c/a> to the Lone Star State, Oracle’s decision has shaken some Bay Area business leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jim Wunderman, president and CEO of the Bay Area Council\"]'The regulatory scheme is really tough to work through. 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Everything takes much longer, costs more money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not everyone agrees that recent high-profile corporate departures signal a kind of comeuppance for California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think folks have been complaining about California's hostile business environment for decades, and that certainly hasn't prevented the state from being one of the biggest economies in the world and attracting entrepreneurs and businesses for decades,” said Molly Turner, who studies the interface of technology, urban policy and economic development at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"taxes\"]“I think it's important for us to distinguish between the executives of these companies moving out of state versus the employees and the offices,” Turner said, noting that Elon Musk and Oracle’s Larry Ellison, who are both among the wealthiest people in the world, did very well in California and are now leaving for places with lower income taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no doubt California is disproportionately reliant on the top 1% of income earners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just that 1% is responsible for generating over 45% of all the personal income tax revenue,” said H.D. 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"content": "\u003cp>From the coronavirus to wildfires to attacks on democracy, it has been, as they say, a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And let’s not forget the fight for racial justice, family separations and corruption in San Francisco government when we look at 2020 in the rearview mirror.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Needless to say, there has been no shortage of cartoon material over the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of my cartoons for this year were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849568/the-hunkering-down-continues\">created at home\u003c/a> …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849568/the-hunkering-down-continues\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11849578\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-800x509.png\" alt='A Mark Fiore cartoon featuring the \"Home Sweet Home\" classic needlepoint sign as \"Home Stay Home Again\" as new stay-at-home orders are issued by Gov. 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https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final-160x101.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final-1536x965.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the pea-soup skies of California gave way to … \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838717/ready-set-weekend\">more COVID-19\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838717/ready-set-weekend\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11838718 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-800x551.png\" alt=\"Weekend by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-800x551.png 800w, 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srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final-800x577.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final-1020x736.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final-160x115.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final-1536x1108.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing that helped me get through this year (particularly as I waded through the doom and gloom on a daily basis while creating cartoons) was to realize that, on the whole, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835202/the-tallest-survivors\">we \u003cem>will\u003c/em> get through this\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835202/the-tallest-survivors\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11835214\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bigbasin_tall_082520_final-800x1662.png\" alt=\"Big Basin by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"1662\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bigbasin_tall_082520_final-800x1662.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bigbasin_tall_082520_final-1020x2119.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bigbasin_tall_082520_final-160x332.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bigbasin_tall_082520_final-739x1536.png 739w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bigbasin_tall_082520_final-986x2048.png 986w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/bigbasin_tall_082520_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We found heroes in the most \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833486/delivering-democracy\">unexpected places\u003c/a> this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833486/delivering-democracy\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11833493\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final-800x587.png\" alt=\"Delivering Democracy by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final-800x587.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final-1020x748.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final-160x117.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final-1536x1126.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/mail_081420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And tried to figure out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833701/red-flag-warning-and-then-some\">new ways to signal danger \u003c/a>…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833701/red-flag-warning-and-then-some\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11833707\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final-800x556.png\" alt=\"Red Flag Warning(s) by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final-800x556.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final-1020x709.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final-160x111.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final-1536x1067.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/redflags_081720_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… while others \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11828988/reading-riting-rithmatic-and-reopening\">didn’t seem worried a bit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11828988/reading-riting-rithmatic-and-reopening\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11828995\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final-800x538.png\" alt=\"Back to School by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final-800x538.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final-1020x686.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final-1536x1034.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid the calls for justice came a fresh look at our history that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825638/one-final-discovery\">more truthful\u003c/a> than what many of us grew up with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825638/one-final-discovery\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11825646\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Columbus by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final-800x566.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final-1020x722.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817126/yes-its-confusing\">patchwork of responses and restrictions\u003c/a>, we now know, is definitely not the most effective way to fight a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817126/yes-its-confusing\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11817138\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-800x627.png\" alt=\"Pandemic Patchwork by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-800x627.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-160x125.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-1020x800.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fighting the deadly coronavirus and systemic inequality simultaneously was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822906/the-other-deadly-virus\">sometimes in conflict\u003c/a>, as people gathered to demonstrate for racial justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822906/the-other-deadly-virus\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11822919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-800x559.png\" alt=\"Stay Home Leave Home by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-800x559.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-160x112.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-1020x713.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we have our very own rolling corruption scandal in San Francisco that began with charges being filed against the now-former head of San Francisco’s Public Works department \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798634/nuru-might-need-to-change-his-twitter-handle\">Mohammed Nuru\u003c/a>, whose Twitter handle is \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MrCleanSF\">@MrCleanSF\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798634/nuru-might-need-to-change-his-twitter-handle\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11798656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/mrclean_012820_final-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Clean SF by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/mrclean_012820_final-800x525.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/mrclean_012820_final-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/mrclean_012820_final-1020x669.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/mrclean_012820_final.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And was a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11796289/optics-in-oakland\">tactical armored personnel carrier and robot\u003c/a> needed to evict the “Moms 4 Housing” women from the house they occupied in West Oakland?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11796289/optics-in-oakland\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11796314\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"BearCat by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final-800x512.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final-1020x652.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final-1200x768.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/bearcat_011520_final.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s hoping 2021 is a little more safe and sane …\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>From the coronavirus to wildfires to attacks on democracy, it has been, as they say, a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And let’s not forget the fight for racial justice, family separations and corruption in San Francisco government when we look at 2020 in the rearview mirror.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Needless to say, there has been no shortage of cartoon material over the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of my cartoons for this year were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849568/the-hunkering-down-continues\">created at home\u003c/a> …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849568/the-hunkering-down-continues\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11849578\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-800x509.png\" alt='A Mark Fiore cartoon featuring the \"Home Sweet Home\" classic needlepoint sign as \"Home Stay Home Again\" as new stay-at-home orders are issued by Gov. Newsom' width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-800x509.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-1020x649.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-1536x977.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though it was a painfully difficult year, there have definitely been some silver linings, like cities \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11811883/less-traffic-more-elbow-room\">closing some streets to cars\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11811883/less-traffic-more-elbow-room\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11811888\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-800x558.png\" alt=\"Silver Lining by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-800x558.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-160x112.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-1020x711.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he is on the way out, the legacy of President Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11843177/ripple-effects-of-zero-tolerance\">continues to torment\u003c/a> children and families caught up in his cruel immigration policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11843177/ripple-effects-of-zero-tolerance\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11843181\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final-800x524.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: Still Separated and Missing by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final-800x524.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final-1020x668.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final-160x105.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final-1536x1006.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/missing_102120_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The COVID-19 pandemic brought a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11848120/its-harder-than-it-looks\">whole new set\u003c/a> of problems to families around the Bay Area and the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11848120/its-harder-than-it-looks\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11848134\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-800x482.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: The Pandemic Parent by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-800x482.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-1020x614.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-160x96.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-1536x925.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While along the way, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s metaphors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847958/full-speed-hunker-down\">continued to evolve\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847958/full-speed-hunker-down\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11847964\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final-800x508.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: The Evolution of a Metaphor Amid COVID-19 by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final-800x508.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final-1020x648.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final-1536x975.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/evolution_111820_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another terrible year of wildfires in California brought more \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11842281/the-linguistic-forecast\">power shutoffs\u003c/a> from PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11842281/the-linguistic-forecast\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11842288\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final-800x503.png\" alt=\"Neglected Equipment Power Shutoff by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final-800x503.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final-1020x641.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final-160x101.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final-1536x965.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/neglected_101420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the pea-soup skies of California gave way to … \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838717/ready-set-weekend\">more COVID-19\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838717/ready-set-weekend\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11838718 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-800x551.png\" alt=\"Weekend by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-800x551.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-1020x702.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-160x110.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-1536x1058.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California continued to rack up the number one spots, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837409/were-number-never-mind\">not how we’d like\u003c/a>.\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837409/were-number-never-mind\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11837416 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/numberone_091020_final-800x577.png\" alt=\"Tired of Number One by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" 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https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/backtoschool_071420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid the calls for justice came a fresh look at our history that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825638/one-final-discovery\">more truthful\u003c/a> than what many of us grew up with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825638/one-final-discovery\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11825646\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Columbus by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final-800x566.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final-1020x722.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/columbus_062220_final.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817126/yes-its-confusing\">patchwork of responses and restrictions\u003c/a>, we now know, is definitely not the most effective way to fight a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817126/yes-its-confusing\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11817138\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-800x627.png\" alt=\"Pandemic Patchwork by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-800x627.png 800w, 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