State employees wasted hours on Instagram as unemployment backlog grew:

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4. Sounds like higher ups purposely slowed the process

The worker in the story said they only had work until 930 am. Their jobs are all on the computer so I would assume the department has a way to track claims being processed and things like how many minutes are spent actually working. When the whole office stops working why wasn't more work given out? This seems like a very weird story.

The issue with how slowly nearly every state processed unemployment claims which has cost our economy untold billions has been a national travesty that deserves way more attention.