Labor Department Published ‘Flawed Estimates’ of Weekly Jobless Claims, Watchdog Says

Wall Street Journal, Nov. 30, 2020–Paul Kiernan, Sarah Chaney Cambon (subscription)
The nation’s system for providing unemployment benefits to jobless workers has consistently produced inaccurate data and lower-than-appropriate payouts to some workers amid the Covid-19 pandemic, a government watchdog said Monday. The Labor Department’s weekly reports on jobless claims have published “flawed estimates of the number of individuals receiving benefits each week throughout the pandemic,” the Government Accountability Office said.
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