States Made It Harder to Get Jobless Benefits. Now That's Hard to Undo.
By Emily Badger and Alicia Parlapiano
Systems that were devised to treat each case as potentially fraudulent are now rushing to deal with millions of newly unemployed people.
The state unemployment systems that were supposed to help millions of jobless workers were full of boxes to check and mandates to meet that couldn't possibly apply in a pandemic.
States required workers to document their job searches, weekly; to register with employment services, in person; to take a wait period before their first check, up to 10 days.
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