At a glance
Since 2001, the state has paid out more in unemployment benefits than it has collected in employer-paid unemployment fund taxes. The fund was depleted in 2008.
Amount borrowed from the federal government since 2008: $1.8 billion.
When it comes to their own financial responsibilities, legislators not only refuse to step up, but they also continue adding to the problem by ignoring a ballooning unemployment insurance shortfall.
Last February, this page reminded Indiana lawmakers of the double standard they exhibited by demanding that schools and local government live within their means while dodging their own responsibility to meet unemployment insurance obligations.
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