Here's a question...

[GiqueCee]

... I've yet to hear anyone address: How are all the state-run unemployment agencies going to handle the tidal wave of claims from now-jobless skilled workers and functionaries that are descending on offices across the country? Add to that the inevitable slashing of federal funding to the states, and there just might be a bit of a problem, doncha think?
Hmmm... it'd be fun to watch Musk get tag-teamed in a cage match with an endless line of civil servants he fired. I'd definitely pay to see that!

[bucolic_frolic]

1. There are a lot of federal state matching programs.

DOGE will blow a hole in all state budgets. Maybe $2 billion for small states, $7-9 billion for the largest. They are cutting SNAP, school lunch support, daycare, Area Agency on Aging (one in every county because that's what administers SS and Medicare eligibility). Senior food lunch support for low-income senior - Meals on Wheels - eliminated from what I read.

Yes state umemployment agencies are already changing offerings for federal layoffs. They gear up quickly. IF they can grow state revenue through income tax receipts, MAYBE the state will find funding.

The state is gone. This is like Dickens' England now. Survival-of-the-fittest world that even Darwin could not imagine.

[Silent Type]

2. Read that the Atlanta City Council is encouraging hiring RIFed federal workers, calling it an opportunity.

Hope it works out that way.

[lastlib]

3. Well the red states.....

...wil just tell 'em all to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Blue states will likely be paying claims out the wazzoo. Just a guess.