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California’s COVID unemployment reckoning goes national

Avatar photo by Lauren Hepler, CalMatters June 18, 2023June 15, 2023

A former federal technology official enlisted by Gov. Gavin Newsom to triage California’s pandemic unemployment response details in a new book how technical and political failures combined to block payments to workers while enabling fraud.


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