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)

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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)

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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 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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