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Cezary Podkul

Cezary Podkul is a reporter for ProPublica who writes about finance.
Infrastructure

The unemployment insurance system is set to get a tech makeover -- but it needs much more, the Biden administration says

The Labor Department has launched an overhaul of the technology that runs the unemployment insurance system, which was overwhelmed by claims and plagued by fraud during the pandemic. But the agency says Congress must act to fix deeper problems.