Coronavirus: Jobless workers can receive $300 extra in California

California workers will be able to receive an additional $300 in unemployment benefits amid the coronavirus after the state government agreed to participate in a lost wages program made possible through an executive order signed by President Donald Trump.
The U.S. government’s Lost Wages Assistance Program is tapping Federal Emergency Management Agency funds to bankroll the program, which replaces a prior program for coronavirus-linked federal unemployment assistance that provided $600 in