“This system is an old, 30-year-old system,” said Governor Gavin Newsom about California’s online unemployment system after it was revealed to be massively defective in a state report last September.
Newsom at the time sought to frame the issues in terms of outdated technology, not incompetence. The computers and software that make it up “need to be strewn to the waste bin of history,” he said.“The reset began this weekend,” the governor promised at the time. “The reset process is expected to end on October 5.”Fast forward almost exactly six months and that same Employment Development Department system is still riddled with failures, glitching repeatedly this weekend just as thousands of cash-strapped Californians sought to certify for
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