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none of these stories are making enough noise about the fact that the trump administration's own secretary of labor has openly acknowledged that the states cannot support this from an implementation standpoint. https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1287485933516922886
meadows and mnuchin keep saying they think the states could handle it with "support", but they've offered almost no details on what that support would be, and they have the most dismal implementation record in modern american history. there is no reason to trust them on this.
almost every state is buckling under the administration of UI *as it is right now*. insisting on this is like demanding that you be allowed to remodel the kitchen while your roof is on fire.
even if it were hypothetically true the states could support a transition under these conditions (it is not true), it would take months, maybe years, to implement. every time they trot this "70%" figure out, it's a lie, they know it's a lie, and they're counting on the press.
any person who has ever in their entire careers worked on an enterprise software transition knows that the idea that you can do it quickly and effectively is a flat-out lie. now multiple any implementation you've worked on by 50, and launch them all simultaneously.
seriously, every story that fails to mention this is leaving you misinformed. it's not impossible to transition to a new infrastructure for unemployment, and we need to be working on it, but we're not going to fix it under duress and during unprecedented system stress.
if congress had an in-depth bill for this kind of a transition ready to go, right now, it would still take years to get every state on board, and every person working for the state who they would need to help has their hands completely full with current claims and capacity.
it's a complete and total fantasy to even pretend that this is being offered in good faith, and the national press really need to do a better job of recognizing when they're having the wool stapled to their eyelids.
