Our state’s unemployment system is outdated and ineffective. Wisconsinites deserve better, but the Legislature has ignored my call for a special session to fix our broken UI system, once again kicking the can down the road. Here's why we desperately need to update our UI system

Our UI system isn't quite as old as I am, but it has been around since about when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. It’s 2021. We’ve got to update and modernize our system, and that will require a serious overhaul.

Our current unemployment benefits system also doesn't support basic, modern functions—things like email, document uploads, and even scrolling—that we need to ensure it’s easier and faster to process unemployment claims.

It’s clear our UI system is clunky, inefficient, and time-consuming. See for yourself what it's like to process a UI claim in real time. Watch

From 2016 to 2019, @WIWorkforce handled a total of 7.2 million claims. Since the #COVID19 pandemic hit, DWD has received 8.8 million claims alone.

Previous administrations and more than a decade’s worth of legislators have ignored this problem—it is long past time to update this broken system. No politics, no posturing—let's just get it done.