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Louisiana will receive $3 billion from the American Rescue Plan. Business lobbyists want part of the money to be used for bailing out the state’s unemployment insurance trust fund, and have found an ally in Gov. John Bel Edwards’ administration. But LBP policy analyst Neva Butkus thinks this is a bad idea. In our latest episode, she breaks down the structural issues with the state's unemployment insurance system - and how to fix them - and better ways to use federal recovery dollars so that they are reaching the people who have suffered the most during the pandemic.