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Revamping unemployment insurance, one state at a time - DOL Blog

Assistant Secretary Rodríguez led a panel with Wisconsin labor leaders on how the state is improving unemployment insurance to ensure ...

Unemployment Insurance Modernization | U.S. Department of Labor

This site highlights how the Department of Labor is empowering states to better serve people as part of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). Special Reports & ...

Redesigning unemployment benefits: A social value-based approach

Unemployment benefits can be restructured to add value to society and individuals in this time of social distancing.

Modernizing Unemployment Insurance - Bipartisan Policy Center

State officials said that using COBOL limited their ability to adapt software systems to rapidly changing demands. One contributing factor is that many COBOL ...

Changing earnings requirements for Unemployment Insurance ...

Earnings-related eligibility rules have important consequences for workers' access to Unemployment Insurance and UI availability in each ...

How Many Weeks of Unemployment Compensation Are Available?

The federal-state unemployment insurance (UI) system helps many people who have lost their jobs by temporarily replacing part of their wages ...

A plan to reform the Unemployment Insurance system in the United ...

In a new policy proposal, Arindrajit Dube outlines the shortcomings of the current unemployment insurance system, and details ways to improve the program by ...

Establishing Unemployment Insurance as a True Worker Benefit

The American unemployment insurance (UI) system is a mess. It's time to revamp it.

Reforming unemployment insurance: Stabilizing a system in crisis ...

The unemployment insurance (UI) system is a cornerstone of our economic infrastructure. It supports working people who have lost their jobs through no fault of ...

Modernizing Unemployment Insurance: Lessons from the Tiger Teams

The COVID-19 crisis underscored shortcomings in unemployment insurance (UI) systems, with overwhelmed state programs struggling with timely ...

Unemployment Insurance System Unprepared for Another Recession

... UI benefits slowly fell from approximately 50 percent to less than 30 percent. The failure of the UI system to adapt to a changing economy ...

Unemployment Insurance: Transformation Needed to Address ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, historic job losses and demand for benefits worsened existing problems in the unemployment insurance system.

A plan to reform the unemployment insurance system

Revamp STC. In this policy paper I begin with a background on UI, including the goals of the policy and how those goals are currently ...

Unemployment Insurance: DOL Needs to Further Help States ...

The Department of Labor oversees unemployment insurance—distributing funds to states, who then provide these funds to eligible people within ...

Unemployment insurance reform can build up labor power

Proposals to revamp American labor power have overlooked unemployment insurance (UI) as a powerful tool for too long.

U.S. Department of Labor (@USDOL) / X

... unemployment insurance to ensure workers have fair access to benefits. ... Revamping unemployment insurance, one state at a time · From blog.dol.gov. 1. 1. 4.

Unemployment benefits and unemployment - IZA World of Labor

Canada, France, Poland, and the US are unique in changing the maximum duration of benefits over the business cycle. Canada sets a higher maximum length when the ...

Well-designed unemployment benefits can help create new ...

Research from France shows how unemployment benefits can help spur the creation of new businesses crucial to economic recovery.

Changing Unemployment and the Post-Pandemic Workforce - RAND

The unprecedented labor market collapse overwhelmed state unemployment insurance systems, and emergency federal intervention has been key to ...

The Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act: Filling the Gaps in ...

Editorial, “Lame Ducks and Recession Politics,”. New York Times (November 9, 2008). “As they extend jobless benefits, lawmakers can also revamp the unemployment ...