{"id":76448,"date":"2025-10-20T11:56:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=76448"},"modified":"2025-10-20T11:56:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:56:14","slug":"governor-newsom-supports-workers-as-trumps-shutdown-hurts-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=76448","title":{"rendered":"Governor Newsom supports workers as Trump\u2019s shutdown hurts the economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Impacted workers can now access vital benefits more easily through modernizations to the unemployment benefits program<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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What you need to know:<\/strong>\u00a0President Trump\u2019s shutdown is hurting workers, families, and businesses \u2014 and California is stepping up to help provide workers with important support, making accessing unemployment benefits easier and more streamlined.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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SACRAMENTO \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0As President Trump\u2019s shutdown reaches its 20th day, its impacts resonate across the national economy \u2014 hurting workers and businesses by creating chaos and uncertainty. While the federal government continues to turn its back on workers, Governor Newsom is moving forward to ensure that the thousands of federal workers in California who are not receiving a paycheck and the families impacted by the President\u2019s failed economic policies can access benefits faster and easier.<\/p>\n

Today, the state is launching a new, upgraded, and modernized unemployment benefits program, making it easier for customers receiving unemployment benefits to report required wages and income information while receiving benefit payments.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThe Trump presidency has been a disaster by every measure. His policies have failed ordinary Americans \u2014 making life tougher for working people, small business owners, and families instead of helping them. It doesn\u2019t take a policy expert to see the harm; the results speak for themselves. As workers and families bear the brunt of President Trump\u2019s failed policies, California will continue to support by making accessing benefits easier.\u201d<\/h4>\n
Governor Gavin Newsom<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Support for Californians<\/h2>\n

Today\u2019s announcement is part of the Governor\u2019s strategy to make state government work better for Californians, and a key update in EDDNext, an effort to modernize the Employment Development Department (EDD)\u2019s myEDD online benefit portal.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur new Wage Tool is another example of how we\u2019re prioritizing customer-centered improvements. Reporting wages accurately helps Californians get paid faster and minimizes follow-up work from our staff so they can spend more time helping customers where it matters most,\u201d\u00a0said California EDD Director Nancy Farias.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The unemployment program can be complex. It requires that individuals receiving benefits\u00a0certify, or answer basic questions every two weeks<\/a>\u00a0to tell the EDD that they are still unemployed and remain\u00a0eligible<\/a>\u00a0to continue receiving benefit payments. These questions include letting EDD know if the person receiving benefits was working or earning any wages while receiving payments, which could impact the amount of their benefit payment.\u00a0Wages must be reported<\/a>\u00a0to the EDD the week they are earned, even if they haven\u2019t been paid yet.<\/p>\n

Listening to unemployment customers, EDD learned that the wage reporting requirements can be confusing given the vast variety of earnings individuals may have to report, the differences between when wages are earned and when they\u2019re paid and between gross wages (earned before any deductions) and net wages.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Today\u2019s update adds a Weekly Wage Reporting Tool to assist unemployment recipients in accurately reporting any earnings they may receive while collecting benefits. The tool combines implementing a wage calculator along with helpful instructions to carefully explain the types of income to report.<\/p>\n

This new wage reporting tool will be followed by more online enhancements to the bi-weekly certification questions in 2026. At that time, EDD will be updating myEDD, making those questions all easier to understand and simpler to complete accurately. EDD is continuing to modernize and transform the customer and employee experience. For a full list of EDD Modernizations, please visit\u00a0EDD.ca.gov<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump’s leadership failures<\/h2>\n

As President Trump\u2019s shutdown continues on its 20th day, information about the nation\u2019s employment numbers remains unavailable. Last week, the California Department of Labor and Workforce Development was unable to release monthly job numbers for the state as a result of the delayed federal numbers \u2014 demonstrating yet another way that the Trump administration\u2019s chaotic economic policies are failing the nation, and putting American families at risk.<\/p>\n

California\u2019s monthly labor market information is produced in partnership with the U.S. Department of Labor\u2019s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Because many federal statistical activities have been suspended during the shutdown, including key surveys that help inform monthly estimates, states are not able to perform their own assessments and publish this month\u2019s employment reports. The data is used by policymakers, business owners, and researchers who are now operating in the dark when it comes to information about how the market is doing.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s Big Beautiful Betrayal<\/h2>\n

The Trump Administration\u2019s failure to produce labor and employment data is only one example of how the administration has betrayed American families and businesses.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s four additional ways that the federal government has betrayed Americans.<\/h2>\n

1. Massive job losses.<\/strong>\u00a0Aside from the thousands of federal workers who are out of work or unpaid, Trump\u2019s policies have created a sharp decrease in hiring for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

2. Higher cost of living.<\/strong>\u00a0As Trump continues to claim that inflation is over, the costs of goods are increasing exponentially.\u00a0A recent poll found that a majority of Americans report their monthly costs have risen by up to $749<\/a>\u00a0during the Trump administration. This will only get worse, due to Trump\u2019s failed tariff policies, which mirror those that caused the Great Depression.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Less chance of purchasing a home.<\/strong>\u00a0Under the Trump administration, the U.S. Housing market has reached its most unaffordable level in history. Despite this, the Trump Administration is attempting to block funding for homelessness programs and take away needed resources that families depend on. All of this, while the President creates tax cuts for his wealthy friends and donors.<\/p>\n

4. More expensive health care and lost coverage.<\/strong>\u00a0Throughout the US, health care consumers will see increases to their health insurance coverage. Californians enrolled in the state\u2019s health care marketplace, Covered California, will see their monthly health insurance bills nearly double beginning in January \u2014 and in some cases more than triple.<\/p>\n

Despite this, California pushes on to help its residents access benefits and much-needed support.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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