Amid California's Unemployment Crisis, a Tech Gold Rush
Copy Link Stacy Lira and her husband of 28 years, Armando, outside their home in Victorville on March 29, 2021. Stacy is holding a folder full of unemployment paperwork. (Shae Hammond/CalMatters) Stacy Lira was nearly a year into her unofficial job as an unemployment-claim detective when things went from bad to worse. The 46-year-old mother of three, who lost her job managing an Inland Empire convenience store last spring, was rushed to the hospital in mid-February. She was struggling to breathe after testing positive for COVID-19. But Lira was adamant that she couldn’t leave home withou...