“Why A High Unemployment Rate Might Help Some Jobless”

A state unemployment rate above 6 percent triggers a higher level of unemployment benefits, KOSU reports.


December’s numbers show more than 100,000 Oklahomans are out of work and O.E.S.C. paid nearly 20,000 claims on state and federal unemployment benefits. If not for these benefits, bills would have gone unpaid and refrigerators left empty, making already grim circumstances, hopeless.

Read more at: kosu.org

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