https://www.siliconvalley.com/2021/01/19/covid-economy-california-unemployment-claims-backlog-rockets-higher/

A vast pile of backlogged unemployment claims in California has swollen to its highest levels in more than two months — a revelation that adds to the brutal burdens facing workers in the state in the wake of coronavirus-linked economic woes.

An estimated 810,750 unemployment claims filed by California workers were stuck in the EDD’s bureaucratic logjam as of Jan. 13, this news organization’s analysis of the two main components of a dashboard posted by the EDD shows.