https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/07/coronavirus-state-extra-600-jobless-payments-amid-economic-meltdown-jobs-layoff-tech/

More than 2 million Californians have recently filed for jobless benefits, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday, and state officials are scrambling to get newly out-of-work residents the larger unemployment benefits enabled by the federal CARES Act to ease coronavirus-spawned economic devastation.

Gov. Newsom estimated at a news briefing on Tuesday that about 2.3 million people have filed claims for unemployment insurance, a grim assessment that is likely only to intensify pressure to begin the larger payments for jobless benefits. In his prior estimates for the avalanche of jobless claims, the governor has used March 12 as the starting point for the running totals, which are based on daily tracking by state labor officials.