https://www.siliconvalley.com/2021/01/19/covid-economy-california-unemployment-claims-backlog-rockets-higher/ > A vast pile of backlogged unemployment claims in California has swollen to its highest levels in more than two months — a revelation that adds to the brutal burdens facing workers in the state in the wake of coronavirus-linked economic woes. > An estimated 810,750 unemployment claims filed by California workers were stuck in the EDD’s bureaucratic logjam as of Jan. 13, this news organization’s analysis of the two main components of a dashboard posted by the EDD shows.