COBOL-coding volunteers sought as creaking mainframes slow New Jersey's coronavirus response
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/05/new_jersey_seeks_cobol_volunteers/
It appears that New Jersey needs COBOL coders because its benefits system has choked on a surge of requests for unemployment payments.
In the video above, from around the 46:50 mark, commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Robert Asaro-Angelo explained that his agency has experienced a 1600 percent increase in its usual volume of requests for assistance.
// I did warn you.