Legislature Spending

The Legislature and incoming Shapiro administration should improve the state's unemployment compensation system. (Associated Press File)

 Matt Rourke

Pennsylvania’s unemployment compensation system was ill-prepared for the flood of claims it received as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in 2020. Now that the flood has receded, critics say that the problems were due not just to increased volume, but to systemic issues that successive legislatures and administrations have failed to resolve.