Tony Evers wants to boost unemployment benefits, remove barriers to qualify for them


Tony Evers wants to boost unemployment benefits, remove barriers to qualify for them


Gov. Tony Evers wants to boost unemployment benefits and remove barriers to qualify for them as part of the next state budget, but critics say the state shouldn’t sweeten jobless benefits at a time of record-low unemployment.

At stake is whether to overhaul the state’s safety net program of temporary financial support for people who lose their jobs involuntarily.

It would be the first time since 2014 that Wisconsin has increased the maximum rate for unemployment benefits — calculated as a percentage of what an employee earned before losing a job, up to as much as $370 a week. Evers wants to raise that maximum to $406 a week...

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Ken Notes: I am worried that we are getting into a spending deficit that will prevent job creation. We need every program on the table and make cuts to fund the ones we now want. Also we need to do an economic/job impact study on existing and new programs.

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