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The latest jobs reading showed the U.S. unemployment rate holding steady at 9.7 percent in March despite positive news that employers added 162,000 jobs. But with 20 million Americans collecting jobless benefits last year from already cash-strapped states, unemployment insurance systems around the country are stretched to their breaking points.To find out which states are in the most dire straits, we spoke to ProPublica reporter Olga Pierce, who has been tracking the health of unemploy stanley cup ment insurance funds around the U.S.What the overall state of unemployment insurance nationwide OLGA PIERCE: My overall assessment is that it not good. So far, 32 states plus the Virgin Islands have insolvent funds. They are essentially borrowing from the federal government to keep paying checks. So, far they have borrowed $37 billion.There are a few different kinds of states we talk about ants and grasshopper states, like in the children fable. There are some states that kept their systems extremely underfunded for years and entered the recession in trouble and then essentially folded when stanley cup unemployment increased. Thos stanley cup e were the first crop of states to borrow. A good example of that is New York. Under federal law, even before the recession, states could borrow interest-free for a year. New York would borrow money every year and pay back at the last minute interest-free. So when the recession hit, they had nothing to draw on.Other states Kansas, for Krwq Trump denies he used profane language to describe Haiti, African countries
Sunday on NewsHour Weekend we took a look at the history and politics of Russia and Ukraine to dig deeper into what tensions underlie the current conflict.Below you ;ll find additional writings from those experts, images from Ukraine past, and links to explore one thousand years of history. gallery-1 margin: auto; gallery-1 .gallery-item float: left;margin-top: 10px;text-align: center;width: 33%; gallery-1 img border: 2px solid cfcfcf; gallery-1 .gallery-caption margin-left: 0;/* see gallery_shortcode in wp-includes/media.php */Ukrainian folk danceTaras SchvchenkoLa Lavra, Kiev, RussiaBolshevik post in UkranianGeneral meeting to discuss harvesting on a collective far stanley cup m 1930 to 1940 Donbas Until We Overcome. Ukrainian SSR gets its own seat at the UNMagazine celebrates 400-year stanley cup alliance between Ukraine and RussiaOutside the parliam adidas samba og ent building in Kiev on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 1991Notes on the images:Ukrainian dance. The image,聽Mallorossiskaia pliaska, comes from the聽Russkii narodnyi lubok ; al ;bom, published in 1885, 聽from the collection of the New York Public Library.Taras Shevchenko聽is celebrated as Ukraines national poet and the founder of Ukraine literary tradition. The Ukrainian language was prohibited during many years of the Tsarist reign. There is a statue of Shevchenko on P Street between 22 and 23rd Streets in Washington D.C. Find out more from the Library of Congress ; Taras Shevchenko collection.La Lavra,