Pritzker sounds alarm: Trump administration trying to limit gig worker jobless benefits – Chicago Sun-Times

Gov. J.B. Pritzker, at his Sunday briefing, said the state of Illinois has to build a new web platform to process the gig and self-employed workers’ claims. The CARES Act should have created a unified system, he said, to “allow each of the states to immediately stand up an unemployment benefit process” for independent contractors.

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