I stumbled upon a recent report, Hat Tip Calculated Risk, that is saying a number of states are changing their unemployment eligibility standards. Apparently the number of weeks that a person is eligible for unemployment has been a standard 26 weeks:
…the maximum number of weeks that jobless workers can receive unemployment insurance to less than 26 weeks—a threshold that had served as a standard for all 50 states for more than half a century…
So, for 50 years we have been following a standard without question. It turns out that at least 6 states in the good ol’ US of A actually DO read TarHeel Red.