Half of the pandemic's unemployment money may have been stolen

[Bucky]

16. Ummmm

I really think you're taking the wrong lesson from this.

A fully centralized, nation-wide system of unemployment services would be nearly unmanageable. The states should do a better job, absolutely. But federalizing it would be such a mess, from the standardization & integration of data banks to the replication of every single state's bureaucracy and services options by a federal bureaucracy, to the duplication of local contacts and contractors involved in retraining and employment outreaches. Not to mention the conflicts and hostilities it'd create between federal authorities and those in the states watching the federal government usurp their functions and responsibilities.

Nope, we only need one nightmare at a time.