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The Unemployment Services Trust predicts little relief for employers over the next decade as states continue to increase unemployment insurance taxes in order to pay out benefits to laid off workers and pay back loans from the federal government. ... The DOL also reports that the number of states borrowing for unemployment funds could increase to 40 by year-end, and that by 2013 approximately $61 billion will have been borrowed. This will take states another ten years or more to pay off. “Making matters worse, there are over 15 million unemployed American workers, with 45 percent jobless for 27 weeks...

Arizona needs to borrow about $600 million from the federal government or risk running out of unemployment benefits. The funds would be paid back by sharply increasing company unemployment-insurance taxes.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- Authorities raided 17 Chinese restaurants around Michigan that they suspect of ducking millions of dollars in taxes and importing undocumented workers as a "modern version of indentured servants." Search warrants were also served at 21 homes of suspected undocumented Chinese workers.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- Authorities raided 17 Chinese restaurants around Michigan that they suspect of ducking millions of dollars in taxes and importing undocumented workers as a "modern version of indentured servants." Search warrants were also served at 21 homes of suspected undocumented Chinese workers. Dozens were involved in the scheme, State Police Lt. Curt Schram said. "It cost them X number of dollars to come to this country and they're trying to work off that debt," Schram said. Investigators believe one family or related families own the restaurants, which are mostly in the central and west-central areas of the...