Just a few weeks ago, California Gov. Gavin Newsom successfully fought off a recall election challenge to remain the chief executive of the most populous state in the US. The fact that the California unemployment rate is soaring right now, though -- and, in fact, just hit a record -- would seem to suggest that, while voters did decide to keep Newsom on the job, satisfaction with the state's economy might not have been the reason why.
As a result of a Covid-induced strain on the national economy, as well as the state's, California has, no surprise, pushed out more than one wave of its own stimulus checks to residents. Round one of those checks, totaling a few hundred dollars, sent out some 600,000 payments to eligible California residents. That happened at the end of August. Another wave of checks went out in September to around 2 million Californians. At the same time, unfortunately, California's jobless rate just reached its highest point in six months, according to local reports.
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