For jobless benefits, workers have to try

When striking workers receive unemployment insurance benefits in Washington state, they are now expected to search for work. Imagine that!

This makes perfect sense to me, and luckily it does to the feds, too.

The United States Department of Labor has warned the state Employment Security Department that its current work-search rule is "out of conformity with federal law and must be immediately remedied." If it isn't, it could lose federal funding for administration of the unemployment insurance program and employers in Washington state may lose their tax credits under the Federal Unemployment T...