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Unemployment payouts push California deeper into debt

The state is borrowing $40 million a day from the federal government to provide assistance to jobless workers, but has resisted changing the formulas it uses to determine and fund those benefits.California's fund for paying unemployment insurance is broke.

 

States seek more fed aid

States are looking to the federal government for more help balancing their budgets, but the Senate is not heeding their call.

 

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