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The human impact of the Bay State's sluggish unemployment system and four more stories

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  ADVERTISEMENT The Saturday Send Welcome back to the Saturday Send, a weekly digest of stories from  CommonWealth Beacon  that you may have missed. This week, reporter Jordan Wolman traveled to Worcester to profile a father of three who has been waiting ten months to receive much needed  unemployment benefits  after he was laid off. Erik Staples is one of many Bay Staters tasked with navigating one of the nation's slowest claims systems a year after the state made changes to try to "modernize" it. Plus, Lynn makes a big investment to tackle  sewer overflows , a state program providing legal aid to people  facing eviction  faces uncertain funding, Boston looks to  join a FEMA program  to help lower flood insurance costs for residents, and a tax-cutting ballot measure that could deal a  $5 billion blow  to the state budget heads to court. Check out those stories below, and, as always, thanks for reading. — The  CommonWealth...