Unemployment Insurance

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)
HNR: Unemployment Insurance Extension Is Urgently Needed (1/29/10)
HNR: Relief Comes for Long-Term Unemployed Workers (11/13/09)
HNR: Senate Will Vote to Break Logjam on Unemployment Insurance (11/02/09)
HNR: Unemployment Insurance Extension Awaits Senate Approval (10/16/09)

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Policy Analyses and Research

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)
NWLC: An Economic Recovery Plan that Works for Women Must Include a Modernized Unemployment Insurance System (updated January 2009)
Center for American Progress, Half in Ten Campaign & NELP: Helping the Jobless Helps Us All: The Central role of Unemployment Insurance in America's Economic Recovery (November 2008)
NELP: Estimated Number of Workers Exhausting the 13-Week Program of Emergency Unemployment Compensation (11/7/08)

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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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