Faulty Government Websites Confront Needy in Search of Aid

“Three months after the disastrous rollout of a new $63 million website for unemployment claims, Florida is hiring hundreds of employees to deal with technical problems that left tens of thousands of people without their checks while penalties mount against the vendor who set up the site.  Efforts at modernizing the systems for unemployment compensation in California, Massachusetts and Nevada have also largely backfired in recent months, causing enormous cost overruns and delays.  A lack of funding in many states and a shortage of information technology specialists in public service jobs routinely lead to higher costs, botched systems and infuriating technical problems.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/07/us/faulty-websites-confront-needy-in-search-of-aid.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

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