Officials plan to offer a new web program to make it easier and faster to get benefits. Here are a few eye-opening stats about why the unemployment office is having a hard time keeping up:
The state had 15,000 applicants in the first week of November, compared with 2,000 that week in 2007. In all of November, there were 46,000 applicants, compared with 25,000 in 2007.
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