Background on this topic
Unemployment Insurance
Latest News
HNR: Unemployment Benefits Restored for Millions of Workers (7/26/10) WashPost: Five Myths About Unemployment (7/25/10) HNR: Efforts to Provide Needed Relief to Unemployed and States Falling Short in the Senate (6/18/10) Op-ed by Deborah Weinstein on the Huffington Post: Help for a Fragile Economy (6/15/10) HNR: Congress Lets Unemployment Insurance Expire – Again And Blue Dogs Abandon Recession-Torn States (6/2/10) Op-ed by Deborah Weinstein on the Huffington Post: Congress Needs to Listen to the Voices of Real People - Not Sound Bites (5/18/10) => More News Policy Analyses and Research
CAP & NELP: Today's Unemployment Crisis by the Numbers (June 2010) CBPP: Policy Basics: How Many Weeks of Unemployment Compensation Are Available? (4/21/10) CBPP: Congress Should Act Quickly to Extend UI/COBRA Benefits Through the End of this Year: Support Would Help the Unemployed and the Economy (4/12/10) NELP: Workers Prematurely Cut-Off of Federal Jobless Benefits During April 2010 Due to Expiration of the Recovery Act's UI Provision (March 2010) CBPP: With Long-Term Unemployment at Record Levels, Congress Should Extend Recovery Act's Unemployment Insurance Provisions Through 2010 (2/22/10) CAP: A Better Way to Help the Unemployed: Congress Should Extend Benefits and Fix the Unemployment Insurance System (2/9/10) NELP: Workers Losing Federal Unemployment Benefits in 2010 Due to Expiration of the ARRA (February 2010) => More Policy Analyses and Research
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 of S. 1062 Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2005 (introduced by Sen. Kennedy 5/18/05) Status of S 923 Economic Security Act of 2003 (introduced by Sen. Kennedy 4/11/03) Status of HR 3554 TEUC and EB Amendments Act of 2003 (introduced by Rep. McDermott 11/20/03)
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