Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut From left, Roz Edison, co-owner of the Super Six restaurant, and Lisa Michaud, owner of the consignment shop Two Big Blondes; both were photographed on Feb. 9, 2020. The notice that came in the mail in December was a shock for Lisa Michaud. At a time when she was struggling to keep her Seattle retail store afloat, the state Employment Security Department said her unemployment tax rate was about to go up by nearly 4,000% mainly because of layoffs she had to make at the start of the pandemic. Like many states, Washington calculates unemployment taxes for businesses partly based on how many of their former workers go on to claim unemployment benefits.
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