Fresno? FresYES!

I'll be on the Radio in Fresno Wednesday Afternoon

Nov 29, 2022

Hello Subscribers!

Just to let you know, I’ll be on Fresno’s leading radio station – KMJ AM 580 – at 1 p.m. (California time - you do the math) Wednesday.

If you happen to be pretty much anywhere in central California you can listen on the actual radio.

If you are elsewhere, you can listen online at:

https://www.kmjnow.com/

I’ll be chatting with host Ray Appleton - https://www.kmjnow.com/2016/01/14/ray-appleton-biography/ - about the state’s unemployment agency, the EDD.

If you don’t live in California, first, good for you! Second, the unconscionable incompetence of the agency is a case study of bad bad bad government, a version of which is almost assuredly happening where you live so its ickiness matters beyond the state lines.

And now for your homework…if you’re interested, here are a few “background” stories so you can better follow along with the interview.

The Point

Another Day at the California EDD: Misinformation, Miserable Claimant Services, Fraud Issues

Thanks to the California Globe for running this piece. You can visit the website at: https://californiaglobe.com/ California’s Employment Development Department (EDD) new claim that it told state legislators and others of the “New Year’s Eve Massacre” – which saw unemployment benefits summarily cut off to 1.4 million people – a week before it occurred…

3 years ago · thomas buckley

The Point

Monetizing Data:

Thanks again to the California Globe for running this piece. You visit the website at: https://californiaglobe.com/ In the spring of 2020, the pandemic caught many by surprise – no organization, it seems, was caught more by surprise than the California Employment Development Department…

3 years ago · thomas buckley

The Point

Why Won't It Sink?!?

First, you will note that there are TWO whole stories below - neat and no extra charge! They are on two aspects of the terribleness of the EDD - the oh-so-ironically named Employment Development Department. First we have the agency which already owes the feds $18 billion in pandemic-borrowing borrowing even more money to stay afloat. Second, we have …