https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/23/coronavirus-unemployment-claim-job-jobless-layoff-economy-tech-hotel-restaurant-retail-edd/

Unemployment claims in California climbed to their highest levels in nearly three months amid fears of benefit reductions for workers and fresh rounds of business shutdowns to combat the coronavirus, federal officials reported Thursday.

The increase in California unemployment filings arrived at the same time that two state senators called on Gov. Gavin Newsom to keep open the broken call centers at the state’s embattled labor agency 24 hours a day, seven days a week to whittle away at a mountain of unresolved claims.