Labor and Employment

Latest News

HNR: Unemployment Insurance Back on Track; Jobs Bills Move in Senate and House (3/12/10)
HNR: Senate Passes Jobs Bill; Abandons Unemployed Workers (3/1/10)
Op-ed by Beatty Brasch in the Lincoln Journal Star: Helping Those Most in Need Get Jobs Helps Everyone (2/11/10)
Op-ed by Patti O'Callaghan in the JConline.com: State Needs to Help Working Families (2/2/10)
HNR: Unemployment Insurance Extension Is Urgently Needed (1/29/10)

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Policy Analyses and Research

EPI Job Picture (updated each month)

IPC: How Expanding E-Verify Would Hurt American Workers and Business (3/2/10)
CBPP: With Long-Term Unemployment at Record Levels, Congress Should Extend Recovery Act's Unemployment Insurance Provisions Through 2010 (2/22/10)
CBPP: Extending the TANF Emergency Fund Would Create and Preserve Jobs Quickly and Efficiently (2/17/10)
NELP: Workers Losing Federal Unemployment Benefits in 2010 Due to Expiration of the ARRA (February 2010)
CAP: A Better Way to Help the Unemployed: Congress Should Extend Benefits and Fix the Unemployment Insurance System (2/9/10)
EPI: Immigration and Wages: Methodological Advancements Confirm Modest Gains for Native Workers (2/4/10)
WAND/IPS: What Kinds of Federal Spending Create the Most Good Jobs? (February 2010)
WOW: WOW's Proposed Nonprofit Tax Credit in White House Job Plan (1/29/10)
CLASP: Job Creation: Extending the TANF Emergency Fund Creates Jobs Now (1/8/10)
First Focus Campaign for Children: Families of the Recession: Unemployed Parents and their Children (January 2010)
CAP: The Recession Marches On: Continued Job Loss Highlights Need for Job Creation Measures(1/8/10)
CHN: If It's Jobless, It's Not a Recovery - Working Paper (12/18/09)
CHN: If It's Jobless, It's Not a Recovery: A Jobs Agenda for Sustained and Shared Recovery - Job Creation Principles (12/15/09)


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Government Resources

House Ways and Means Committee: Unemployment Extension Briefing Materials (6/9/08)
Includes reasons for extending benefits; a brief summary of "The Emergency Extended Unemployment Compensation Act" H.R. 5749; and the estimated number of workers by state eligible for extended unemployment benefits under H.R. 5749.
Status and text of H.R. 3010 the Fiscal 2006 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act (signed into law 12/30/05)
Senate Appropriations Committee: S. Rept. 109-103 Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations Bill for FY 2006 (7/14/05)
CBO: Cost Estimate for S. 1021- Workforce Investment Act Amendments of 2005 (7/1/05)
House Appropriations Committee: H. Rept. 109-143 Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations Bill for FY 2006 (6/21/05)
Status of "Workforce Investment Amendments of 2005" (S. 1021 introduced 5/18/05)

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