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Author Archives: Lauren Hepler, CalMatters

Posted inCalifornia Currents

Amid state’s unemployment crisis, a tech gold rush

by Lauren Hepler, CalMatters April 5, 2021April 5, 2021

The state’s unemployment agency has signed $236 million in private contracts as jobless workers await benefits. EDD says it needs the outside help.

Posted inCalifornia Currents

Is California blowing it on unemployment reform?

by Lauren Hepler, CalMatters March 29, 2021March 29, 2021
Posted inCOVID-19 Information Hub

Disneyland, stadiums get green light to start reopening April 1

by Lauren Hepler, CalMatters March 5, 2021March 5, 2021
Posted inCalifornia Currents

Bidding wars and overblown fears: The curious case of the California exodus

by Lauren Hepler, CalMatters March 4, 2021March 4, 2021
Posted inCalifornia Currents

State’s unemployment crisis, explained

by Lauren Hepler, CalMatters February 25, 2021February 25, 2021
Posted inCalifornia Currents

Economy czar Dee Dee Myers on vaccines, reopening and California’s ‘overblown’ exodus

by Lauren Hepler, CalMatters February 11, 2021February 11, 2021
Posted inCalifornia Currents

‘Kickback scheme’: How EDD and Bank of America make millions on unemployment

by Lauren Hepler, CalMatters February 3, 2021February 3, 2021
Posted inCalifornia Currents

Bank of America says it lost ‘hundreds of millions’ on unemployment fiasco

by Lauren Hepler, CalMatters January 27, 2021January 27, 2021
Posted inCOVID-19 Information Hub

Newsom lifts stay-at-home order, counties back in control of COVID-19 reopening

by Lauren Hepler, CalMatters January 25, 2021January 25, 2021
Posted inCOVID-19 Information Hub

‘Too little, too late’: California small businesses chase COVID-19 relief

by Lauren Hepler, CalMatters January 25, 2021January 25, 2021

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