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The jump in joblessness comes as California's unemployment insurance fund teeters on the brink of insolvency. The fund is expected to have a deficit of $2.4 billion at the end of 2009.
To keep unemployment checks coming, the state may have to borrow from the federal government for only the second time since the program was established in the 1930s.
The jump in joblessness comes as California's unemployment insurance fund teeters on the brink of insolvency. The fund is expected to have a deficit of $2.4 billion at the end of 2009.
To keep unemployment checks coming, the state may have to borrow from the federal government for only the second time since the program was established in the 1930s.
California has a huge non-tax-paying and cash-market economy. Many of our multi-faceted new immigrants to CA come from cultures where tax-paying is "for suckers".