The congressional battles regarding the extension of unemployment benefits, the weekly unemployment insurance claimsreports, and the monthly reporting of the national unemploymentrate has kept the topic of unemployment in the news.

However, a related topic that has not received as much attentionis the precarious state of the unemployment insurance system andhow the underfunded status will affect employers, who pay for thismandated benefit.

According to UWC, an association of national and state businessorganizations, the costs of unemployment insurance (UI) foremployers has increased from $31 billion in 2008 to $160 billion in2010.

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