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The California Unemployment Insurance Debt Crisis

The story is real and actually understates the fuller picture.

California’s unemployment insurance trust fund is roughly $21 billion in debt to the federal government, with apparently no concrete plan to pay it off. What’s remarkable is that California is the only state that has not repaid its federal unemployment insurance loan from the COVID-19 pandemic. Every other state — including New York and Connecticut — has settled up.

The roots go back further…

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