Employment Development Department Seeing Cuts
It's going to get tougher to get someone on the phone to answer your unemployment and disability questions soon.
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It's going to get tougher to get someone on the phone to answer your unemployment and disability questions soon.
Despite surging state tax revenue, Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday announced a spending plan for the coming fiscal year that is $1.2 billion lower than he projected in January.
Democratic lawmakers want to spend the additional revenue to make up for years of budget cuts to programs serving women, children and the poor.
California is enjoying a revenue surplus for a change, and that's causing disagreement among Democrats.
A bill to allow transgender students use the same bathrooms and locker rooms is generating controversy as it passed the Assembly Thursday.
California's attorney general is suing one of the nation's largest banks, alleging that JPMorgan Chase & Co. used illegal tactics in its debt collection efforts against about 100,000 credit card holders.
Gov. Jerry Brown said Tuesday that he believes the public still has confidence in the safety of the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge despite concerns about construction of the $6.4 billion span that is scheduled to open later this year.
California was an early booster of President Barack Obama's health care law and its Democratic political leadership was quick to commit to the optional Medicaid expansion. But it turns out that saying yes was the easy part.
Families impacted by medical negligence gathered at the State Capitol Thursday, pushing for a measure to lift California's financial cap for malpractice victims.
Professional athletes who spent most of their careers with teams in other states would no longer be able to file workers' compensation claims in California under a bill headed to the state Senate.
California would seek to reduce inmates' sentences while increasing its use of private prisons to meet a court-ordered population cap by the end of the year, under a plan Gov. Jerry Brown filed late Thursday.
The state Senate has approved a bill that would allow county prosecutors to charge lower-level, non-violent drug offenses as misdemeanors instead of felonies.
Peace officers and members of the military seeking to resell handguns not approved by the California Department of Justice could sell them only to other authorized individuals under a bill headed to the state Senate.
