Following the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles' outage on March 20, Gov. Jeff Landry declared a State of Emergency Friday morning. In the executive order, Landry extended the expiration date and ...

“It lowers the barrier to entry dramatically,” Fowler said. “Developers can open Cobol projects in Visual Studio or VS Code, ...

WASHINGTON — Most states – including those in the D.C. area, use a 60-year-old computer language called COBOL to run unemployment department computers. That’s according to a national association ...

Under the last coronavirus stimulus package signed into law late last year, each state was responsible for implementing federal unemployment extensions for people who lost their jobs in the pandemic.

In our mania for the new, it’s convenient to forget just how long the “old” stays with us. Take COBOL, for example. The venerable programming language turns 60 this month and, as Steven J.

Here's an unexpected side effect of the pandemic: increased demand for COBOL programmers. The need seems to be particularly acute among states whose unemployment systems were originally written in the ...

Latest innovations deliver faster, safer modernization of COBOL applications—unlocking new value from core systemsWALTHAM, Mass., Sept. 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rocket Software, a global ...

Sometimes, technology is a reasonable excuse for a holdup. But in the case of the unemployment benefits that are part of the $2.2 trillion CARES Act, processing delays are not due to a glitch, but the ...