How will having state legislatures appropriate the funds impact the level of funding for our system and what about “the race to the bottom”?
The Coalition believes that state legislatures will actually have a better perspective on the State’s needs than the Congress. State legislators are more immediately aware of the impact of funding levels on service delivery to their constituents and more likely to understand the need for a strong service delivery structure for employment security programs. Because state legislatures have not had to be familiar with the administrative financing of employment security programs, there will be a need for state employment security agencies to educate them. The Coalition also believes the concern about the proposal leading to a “race to the bottom” is unfounded. Although state legislatures have not been primarily responsible for administrative funding for employment security, they have been responsible for legislating state unemployment laws for both state unemployment tax and benefits and have done so very responsibly over the years. There is no reason to believe that state legislatures wou
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