California's EDD has enough problems. Giving jobless benefits to striking workers is the last thing it needs

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : He has wielded his veto pen accordingly in recent years, including difficult choices like denying unemployment benefits to undocumented workers last year.
62% : The move was a dramatic departure from the program President Franklin D. Roosevelt created through the Social Security Act of 1935, which was intended to relieve economic hardship for workers who had lost jobs through no fault of their own.
59% : The state fund that supports unemployed workers is more than $18 billion in debt, with no fix in sight.
55% : Yet history makes clear that even as the strike has been a critical tool for workers asserting their rights, it has also been at times abused by labor leaders focused on their own power and prestige.
53% : This is about blocking and tackling - the most basic work of government on behalf of the people.

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