… friends in the business community and our friends in the labor community to lift a burden that was out there through nobody's fault. Direct result of the pandemic was that Our unemployment insurance fund, which had always been healthy, literally ran out of money [due to the pandemic]. We had so many New Yorkers as the epicenter of this pandemic, from New York City all the way up to the north country that lost their jobs. (02:22–02:31)
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Asserts that the unemployment insurance fund ran out of money because of the pandemic.
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