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How’s this for irony: The most secure employment in Oklahoma today is helping the jobless get their benefits. The Oklahoma Employment Security Commission has added employees and may have to do so again to keep up with the traffic in jobless benefits. As unemployment increases, OESC workers have their hands full handling claims for compensation. Phone lines have been so jammed that equipment upgrades were needed. Payments to jobless workers may reach record levels because the maximum benefit has been increased. The state’s unemployment rate in November rose to 4.5 percent from 4.2 percent in October. Imagine how busy the commission would be if joblessness ever hit double digits. That would force the need for more employees, thus reducing unemployment by a fraction of a percent.
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