DOL’s ‘Tiger Teams’ Eye Unemployment Fixes in Six More States

The U.S. Labor Department is sending its specialized “Tiger Teams” of unemployment experts to another half a dozen states as it expands its most hands-on effort to date to help states shore up their unemployment systems.

Teams, which have gone out to a dozen states since DOL launched the effort last year, are now being deployed to Arizona, Delaware, Illinois, Michigan, New Hampshire, and Oregon in the program’s latest round, Michele Evermore, deputy director for policy at DOL’s new Office of Unemployment Insurance Modernization, said in a statement.

The initiative is one of the DOL’s most direct efforts to uncover ...