Annals of “Failing Up”, from Washington State to The Other Washington
2nd February 2021
Last week, an official from Washington State was nominated by the Biden administration to be “Interim Assistant Secretary of the Employment and Training Administration”, a post in the Labor Department. And just what the hell is that? “Interim” “Assistant”? Someone must have searched long and hard for a suitable slot for the former Head of the Washington Employment Security Department, which handles unemployment claims.
Here in Washington State, Suzi LeVine presided over the loss to the State of $600 Million in Unemployment Fraud, during the Covid-unemployment deluge last year. The Department even today has a 40,000-claim backlog in processing 2020 claims. I wonder how much taxpayer money she will now lose for the rest of the country in her new job?