by Jeremiah Tattersall
Field Staff, Florida AFL-CIO, North Central Florida Central Labor Council
The novel coronavirus has thrown Florida’s fragile economy into disarray, and tens of thousands of Floridians are facing sudden job losses and personal financial crises. Simply put, the State of Florida must do everything in its power to stave off the severity of an economic downturn and support working people.
But Florida’s Unemployment Insurance (UI) system is on the front line of this economic crisis and it simply isn’t up to the task.
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