Let’s take a trip down memory lane about how you, assembly chair of the JFC, could’ve prevented UI backlog shall we? In 2014, the Joint Legislative Audit Committee published a report that found in 2013-14, ~ 1.7 million calls to DWD, 60.2 %, were blocked b/c of busy lines. 1/5 https://twitter.com/rep89/status/1328452964810416128

Republicans, namely YOU, did nothing to remedy @WIWorkforce’s backlog. You knew for 6 years that DWD used 1950’s software through a 1970’s mainframe to process UI requests. Software that also makes it almost catastrophic to reprogram more than one law change at a time. 2/5

Yet, while you were happy to funnel millions to foxCON, upgrading a prehistoric administrative system found you stingy as hell. As covid hit, the system still was not upgraded, & it cost Wisconsinites their livelihoods and some, their lives. 3/5

Additionally, since 2011 your party has made applying for UI more difficult, based entirely on a racist & classist propaganda of the ‘welfare queen’. And when the Guv proposed a number of revisions to unemployment insurance law in the 2019 budget, the JFC struck them down. 4/5

So what’s frustrating is your utter lack of self reflection. You caused this, not @GovEvers. The real transparency is that your party remains as outdated as @WIWorkforce’s software, tethered to a prehistoric notion that politicians only serve themselves. Kindly, do better. 5/5

Here are some great sources for you to read @rep89: https://www.wpr.org/sites/default/files/dec._2014_initial_claims_processing_for_unemployment_insurance_.pdf

https://www.wpr.org/sites/default/files/dec._2014_initial_claims_processing_for_unemployment_insurance_.pdf

https://www.google.com/amp/s/upnorthnewswi.com/2020/05/27/audit-showed-unemployment-claims-backlog-six-years-ago-gop-did-little-to-fix-it/amp/