Reports filed with the state in the last six months showed 3,384 permanent layoffs among tech employers in Santa Clara County, and 8,765 permanent tech layoffs statewide since August.

California’s unemployment department is making progress on key reforms, but some of the most transformational changes are still years away.

Lawmakers are asking questions about the revenue-sharing deal as workers still missing money fight to survive.

In the South Bay, according to prosecutors, it’s being perpetrated by organized rings involving people locked up in local jails. 

With another stimulus bill poised to inject more cash into a leaky system, taxpayers could be left holding the bag.

The push for details about breakdowns in the job safety net follows a CalMatters probe into problems impacting 350,000 EDD debit cards.

California officials estimate that jail and prison inmates could have filed close to $1 billion in fraudulent claims for pandemic benefits.

Cisco is Santa Clara County’s largest private sector employer, with more than 10,000 local employees.

The Mountain View research center, which employs more than 1,000 staffers and another 1,000 contractors, is hard hit by the budget crisis.

Local leaders found a place to relocate Hope Village, an un-permitted homeless camp created by activists and advocates for the un-housed.

Hope Village was meant as an emergency shelter for for homeless people, but police are shutting it down just two days after it opened.