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Parents hit with tax on adult kids’ health insurance
Parents in California who rushed to put their adult children on their company health insurance after the new health care law was approved last year have gotten an unhappy surprise — a higher state...
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California pays record $22.9 billion in jobless aid
Payouts for California jobless benefits totaled $22.9 billion last year, up from the previous record of $20.2 billion in 2009, the state Employment Development Department reports. In a typical year,...
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Rockwell Collins closing Irvine plant
Rockwell Collins is closing its Electromechanical Systems operation on Redhill Avenue in Irvine this summer and will lay off 140 workers, a company spokeswoman confirmed today. Pam Tvrdy said the...
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3 O.C. legislators seek pension reform
Three Orange County Republican legislators have jumped on the public pension reform bandwagon with three separate bills aimed at changing current public retirement plans. The bills include: AB961 by...
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California first-time jobless claims drop for 3rd week
Californians filed 68,060 first-time unemployment claims in the week ending Feb. 19, a drop of 2,202 and the third week in a row that applications declined, the U.S. Labor Department reported today....
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UnitedHealthcare lays off 180 in O.C.
UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement laid off 180 workers in Santa Ana today as part of a company consolidation, a company spokesman confirmed. “UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement is...
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California 2011 job growth ‘dismal’
California’s economy has shifted from slow into low with the unemployment rate expected to be in double digits until 2013, a UCLA economist forecast Wednesday. Jerry Nickelsburg said in UCLA’s...
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California per capita income tops $43,000
Californians saw their per capita personal income grow to $43,104 last year, 12th highest in the country, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reports. 2010 state per capita personal income Rank State...
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91% of EDD callers get hangups
More than nine out of 10 callers who wanted to talk to a state Employment Development Department agent were unable to get through on the phone at the peak of layoffs in 2008-09, according to a state...
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March double-digit unemployment State % Nevada 13.2% CALIFORNIA 12.0% Florida 11.1% Rhode Island 11.0% Michigan 10.3% Kentucky 10.2% Mississippi 10.2% Georgia 10.0% Oregon 10.0% California was one of...
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