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Everyone is blaming the computers, but there’s more to the story.

Although many states are allowing businesses to reopen, hundreds of thousands of people in the US are still out of work. But whether they can get the unemployment benefits they deserve depends on where they live. In some states, more than two-thirds of jobless people have received unemployment benefits. In other states, like Florida, that number is less than one in 10.

What accounts for the difference? A big part of it is Florida’s notoriously hard-to-use online system for unemployment insurance applications. But this problem isn’t just about the technology that states use to issue benefits. It’s about the ideology that drives that technology.

Check out the video above to find out more.

Sources and further reading:

Ain’t No Sunshine: Fewer than One in Eight Unemployed Workers In Florida