https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/04/08/amid-californias-unemployment-crisis-a-tech-gold-rush/ > The 46-year-old mother of three, who lost her job managing a Victorville convenience store last spring, was rushed to the hospital in mid-February. She was struggling to breathe after testing positive for COVID-19. But Lira was adamant that she couldn’t leave home without one thing: She needed her carefully filed unemployment records so she could keep calling from the hospital about the nearly $20,000 she says the state owes her family. > “If you miss one day,” Lira explained, “that could have been the day that it all worked out.”