All the federal money for small businesses is gone, that is not good.

So we should have spent tens of millions of dollars on excess capacity and paid people to sit and do nothing on the chance that they may or may not be needed at some time??

Won't matter if the unemployment application works or not. No way the states have the kind of money to pay the claims regardless. IL is so broke they already admitted it. And the states creating the most unemployment through their one size fits all decisions will be the first ones to blame the federal government for not helping bail them out. IMO most of the politicians don't know squat about how to run a huge business, and that's exactly what a state, or the US is. It will turn into a huge political blame game.

do you know the state actually had to sue the system developer because the system operates so poorly? do you know that same developer is most of the reason the sec. of state now has three hour waits and 2020 business licenses were not issued until late february?

Hanging in my office so as to never forget the governor who closed the Great Lakes (and the small ones).

I did not--but what I do know.
I filed for unemployment for the first since 1980--and my wife filed for the first time ever. We both followed the posted schedule and filed 2 claims in about 25 minutes. After verifying our claims the payments hit our direct deposit accounts less than 48 hours later. The whole process was easy and painless.
I do know that we are both in the high risk group and are several months away from retirement--but were forced back to work as "essential" workers while managment and execs work from home to avoid any risk while second guessing every move we make.
The boating aspect seems to be a bit much--but the big picture depends on your point of view IMHO.

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No shortage of idiots here in FL but the Michigan situation is squarely on the ridiculous grandstanding gov.

Forced back to work yet getting unemployment in 48 hours. Not trying to be an ass, but that seems a bit of a contradiction. Can you fill us in with what's happening with ur company? Are they forcing certain high risk people to work regardless of risk,

As compared to your governor that made professional wrestling an essential activity, sure I'll stick with ours.