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unemployment insurance

Economy & Business

Texas Is Underfunding Unemployment To Keep Business Taxes Low. Now It Owes $7 Billion And Counting.

Paul Flahive

Texas ranked 50th out of 53 states and districts in its funding for unemployment, and it has collected about a third of what the federal government says it needs to.