Paul J. YoungCity News ServiceRIVERSIDE (CNS) – A bill seeking to provide unemployment benefits to non-citizens in California will ensure that “excluded workers” have access to compensation to which they’re entitled, according to a Riverside County lawmaker, while an opponent of the measure counters it will expand the state’s “failing unemployment insurance program” when there’s no money for it.Senate Bill 227, the Excluded Workers Program, was ratified by the state Senate at the end of May and is now under consideration by the Assembly Committee on Insurance.Sen. Maria Durazo, D-Los Angeles, authored the bill, saying “California’s economy suffers by excluding undocumented workers from the (unemployment insurance) program.”“Immigrant workers make
