The state’s understaffed unemployment insurance call center is getting 40,000 calls a day.
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Unemployment call center understaffed, overwhelmed
The state’s understaffed unemployment insurance call center that’s designed to handle 2,000 calls a day at the Hawai‘i Convention Center was getting more than 200,000 calls every day just two weeks ago but is still overwhelmed by 40,000 calls each day.
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