In addition to figuring out where to get additional revenue, some states are starting to also look at how to adjust policy to cut down on the draws against the unemployment trust fund. 

Check out South Carolina where a "Senate proposal" would "give the agency the right to deny unemployment benefits to workers who are fired for illegal drug use.  Workers also could be denied benefits for gross misconduct, which includes reckless damage to employer property, employee theft, and criminal assault or battery against a fellow employee."

Claimants collecting who were fired for misconduct represented about "10 percent of total benefits [paid] between July 1, 2006, and June 30, 2009."

Tammy Mullin