Unemployment Checks Are Being Held Up By A Coding Language Almost Nobody Knows
Posted on AllSides April 18th, 2020
From The Left
Just a month ago, Peter Cassidy was working at an airport in the small ski town of Montrose, Colorado. But as the novel coronavirus trickled into his county, Cassidy and his co-workers watched as the list of inbound flights got shorter and shorter. On March 17th, he was laid off. The next morning, like millions of other Americans, he punched his information into an online unemployment form.
But when he clicked submit, he was met with an error: Colorado’s system was overloaded and he’d need to file again.