With Nearly 70,000 New Workers Filing for Unemployment, COVID-19 Exposes Stark Shortcomings of Michigan's Unemployment System
May 08, 2020
May 08, 2020
LANSING, Michigan, May 8 -- The Michigan League for Public Policy issued the following news release:
With almost 70,000 new Michigan workers applying for Unemployment Insurance last week--and 1 million workers since March 16--and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer extending and expanding on her executive order last night to do what she can to help them, the COVID-19 crisis has unfortunately made clear just how inadequate the state's Unemployment Insurance (UI) system has become. A timely new rep . . .
With almost 70,000 new Michigan workers applying for Unemployment Insurance last week--and 1 million workers since March 16--and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer extending and expanding on her executive order last night to do what she can to help them, the COVID-19 crisis has unfortunately made clear just how inadequate the state's Unemployment Insurance (UI) system has become. A timely new rep . . .