Florida Didn’t Prioritize Fixing Its Unemployment System
The two-month session ended without lawmakers revamping the state’s unemployment system that has proven inadequate over the last year. However, the Legislature did pass a bill to update the unemployment website.
May 04, 2021 •
(TNS) — A year ago, Florida's unemployment crisis was a top issue on the minds of state lawmakers.
With the state's unemployment system inoperable, hundreds of thousands of desperate Floridians bombarded lawmakers' phone lines begging for help filing their claims. Lawmakers from both parties pledged to reform the antiquated system.
Yet by the time they convened months later in Tallahassee for their annual legislative session this March, the unemployment crisis had been eclipsed by hot-button culture war topics such as penalizing social media companies, banning vaccine "passports," voting reforms and "anti-riot" legislation.