Two numbers illustrate why changing unemployment insurance is such an important part of the legislative agenda for business, labor and Gov. Martin O’Malley this session.
Last February, Maryland’s unemployment insurance trust fund had $680 million in it. A year later it holds just $50 million, and is paying out $20 million a week to the jobless.
The Executive Department, which includes the Governor’s Office, couldn’t account for more that $18,000 in new computer equipment that was lost or stolen, including a laptop and a digital camera, legislative auditors said in a report this month.
But the governor’s staff eventually found seven of the eight missing items, according to a response from Gov. Martin O’Malley’s Chief of Staff Matthew Gallagher.
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