Q&A: Why is Florida's unemployment such a disaster? Because it was meant to be. [View all]

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https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/scott-maxwell-commentary/os-op-florida-unemployment-desantis-rick-scott-maxwell-20200505-lopbfm4mzreqfi4wngh2sxareu-story.html#rt=chartbeat-flt

How bad is this system?

Think of the Hindenburg ... crashing into the Titanic. In mid-April (a full month into this crisis), Florida had processed only 4% of the claims submitted. If we were grading this, that’d be an F-minus-minus.

But some people say no system could ever handle a giant spike like the coronavirus crisis prompted.

Those people are full of it.

What do you mean?

Sure, there was a giant spike. But other states handled it — better, at least. Early on, smaller states were processing more claims in a week than Florida did in a month. And Nevada has distributed more federal benefits than Florida, even though Nevada is one-seventh our size, the Tampa Bay Times reported this week.

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