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When the airport shut down, so did the restaurants inside. Reyna Gonzalez, 55, had worked there for years. We first spoke with her in September. The interviews were conducted in Spanish.
A state report found extreme delays in getting checks to unemployed people as food demand is high.
OC food bank and pantry operators brace for expected food shortfalls.
Gov. Newsom has yet to release theme park virus guidance despite hints that guidelines are coming “very soon” and as Disneyland is slated to sack nearly 6,000 workers.
A governor’s veto on Wednesday night puts more than 50,000 hotel and resort workers across Orange County on edge as they were hoping to get rehiring protections.
There’s nearly 200,000 people out of work across Orange County, about the same amount of local unemployment during the Great Recession of 2008. Who will look out for the county’s working poor?
A growing backlog of state unemployment claims and concerns among local labor leaders over whether laid off workers will get their jobs back keeps a spotlight on unemployment.
Since the pandemic began grocery store clerks, warehouse workers, farmworkers, construction crews, health care workers and many others never stopped.
Orange County residents won’t be evicted for failing to pay rent during the coronavirus pandemic due to a new state law banning evictions until February next year, but people will still have to pay their rent in full by then.
Reeling from the coronavirus, local arts groups and artists get a lifeline thanks to an assist from Arts Orange County.