Justin Bullock: Hope for stopping improper payments at Labor Dept.

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Justin Bullock: Hope for stopping improper payments at Labor Dept.

The Labor Department's unemployment insurance program pays out $3.5 billion a year improperly, an error rate of more than 10 percent. Justin Bullock, assistant...

Tom Temin@tteminWFED

March 28, 2017 12:45 pm

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Justin Bullock, assistant professor at the Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A & M

The Labor Department's unemployment insurance program pays out $3.5 billion a year improperly, an error rate of more than 10 percent. Justin Bullock, assistant professor at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A & M, studied this problem. He shares the results on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.