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Look into unemployment system tech. In my state, its physically impossible to access it. Whenever you call or go online, it is straight up broken and dozens of
by Dumblydorr 7y ago
Look into unemployment system tech. In my state, its physically impossible to access it. Whenever you call or go online, it is straight up broken and dozens of contact attempts have yielded nothing.
Our economic system is not nearly robust enough for these suddenly 5-10% unemployed and underemployed citizens. We can not "easily get through this if we want to".
- SketchySeaBeast 7y agoI can't speak to the states, but as a Canadian, my wife and I tried to tackle the communication problem together - it took us a collective 550 calls over the day to even make it to the "on hold" queue, and I'm pretty sure making into the queue was purely by luck - my wife continued trying and never got through. The system is completely overwhelmed.
- mcv 7y agoThat's a really good point. Even if a society technically has the resources to take care of everybody, a big disruption can still threaten access to it. As much as I'd like to see western/northern European countries as fairly well organised in this regard, government sites are crap everywhere.