https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/13/covid-unemployment-edd-jobless-claims-backlog-rockets-higher-economy/ > A mammoth backlog of unemployment claims in California has reached its highest levels in more than two months, with well over 1 million workers mired in the state government’s bureaucratic limbo. > The logjam has surfaced at the same time that California jobless claims showed a tiny decrease last week — although the current level of unemployment filings are far above the pre-COVID levels, suggesting that brutal numbers of layoffs continue to jolt the state’s wobbly economy.