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Record numbers of Californians are filing new unemployment claims every week and the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic is only forecast to get worse.
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Our business and economy reporter David Wagner talked to Loree Levy, deputy director of public affairs at California’s Employment Development Department (EDD) and George Warner, who is a fellow with the Wage Protection Program at Legal Aid At Work.
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