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Josh Shapiro: “We hired nearly 400 new people [for the unemployment…”

Featuring: Josh Shapiro, Democratic | Governor of Pennsylvania

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Governor Shapiro to Highlight Major Improvements in PA's Unemployment Compensation System

Published | Video Starts at 24:52

From literally the first week when I challenged Secretary Walker to fix this system. I went to lawmakers and Democrats and Republicans both invested in a new system here so We hired nearly 400 new people [for the unemployment compensation system]. We gave them the technology that they needed to be able to work more efficiently and we were poor our results back to the legislature so they could see that the money they were investing was going to good cause here. (24:52–25:02)

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