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Recapping the 2024 NASWA Summit, sharing key challenges, and identifying solutions

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Andrew Stettner argues that state unemployment systems must adopt Amazon's practice of relentless user testing before deploying any new feature.
Guest host Dale Smith interviews Andrew Stettner from the U.S. Department of Labor to recap key themes from the 2024 NASWA Summit. They discuss the urgent need to modernize state unemployment insurance systems post-pandemic, the evolving threat of sophisticated fraud, concrete state success stories like Nebraska, and the growing role of AI and agile development in creating more efficient, user-friendly programs.

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A practical summit recap that treats unemployment insurance modernization as operations, not slogans.

Unemployment insurance modernization is treated here as an operating problem, not a slogan. Dale Smith and Andrew Stettner keep the focus on service delivery, agency workload, and the tech behind both, using the 2024 NASWA Summit to ask what clearer self-service and more staff…

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You want a clear read on how states are modernizing UI, and why it matters for agency staff and the people using the system.

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