Editorial: Facts & fixes to really help N.C.'s unemployed
Friday, May 1, 2020 -- These are not the best of times. The troubling shortcomings of unemployment benefits laws meant to protect N.C. workers are vividly exposed. Even with the added assistance in federal COVID-19 stimulus legislation, workers are left in far greater jeopardy than those anywhere else in the nation. There are key provisions in the state's unemployment laws that work against the protection of workers and must be changed now. If not tens of thousands of employees who suddenly have been forced from their jobs will run out of benefits, leaving themselves and their families without anywhere else to turn.