Unemployment Insurance - More Policy Analyses and Research
2009-2010
NWLC: The Unemployment Emergency Continues for Women and their Families - But the Emergency Unemployment Compensation is About to Expire (October 2010) NELP: Out in the Cold for the Holidays: Federal Jobless Benefits Will Be Cut for More than One Million Workers Starting November 30 if Congress Fails to Renew Emergency Program (10/27/10) NELP: 3.3 Million People Kept Out of Poverty with Unemployment Benefits in 2009: Recovery Act's Expansion of Benefits Dramatically Increased Unemployment Insurance's Role in Poverty Alleviation from 2008 (9/17/10) 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) NWLC: An Economic Recovery Plan that Works for Women Must Include a Modernized Unemployment Insurance System (updated January 2009)
2008
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) NELP: Another Unconditional Giveaway of the Federal Unemployment Trust Funds: A Bad Deal for Jobless Workers and for the Unemployment Insurance Program (September 2008) NELP: Estimated Number of Workers Eligible for Extended Unemployment Benefits Under Supplemental Spending Package (5/14/08)
2006
NELP: End of the Roadfor Gulf Coast Families - Congress Must Extend Jobless Benefits by March (2/20/06)
2005
NELP: UI to be Cut in LA, Not Able to Respond to Katrina (10/6/05) CBPP: Unemployment Benefits Are Too Low for Hurricane Survivors (9/27/05) NELP & CEPR: Clearing the Path to UI for Low-Wage Workers (8/15/05) EPI Job Picture (updated each month) Annie E Casey: 2005 KIDS COUNT Report Shows Increase in Child Poverty (7/27/05) includes data on children living with unemployed parents EPI and NELP: Long Term Joblessness Grows (5/26/05) Urban: How Have Households with Children Fared in the Job Market Downturn (April 2005) (discusses importance of unemployment insurance and other supports for those out of work) CBPP: State Policies to Assist Working-Poor Families (12/10/04) CHN: Block Grant Proposals Threaten Services for Families and Communities (updated 10/22/04) CBPP: Number of Uninsured Without Benefits Hits Record 3 Million (10/13/04) CBPP: Unemployment Insurance Does Not Explain Falling Welfare Caseloads and Rising Poverty (10/12/04) CEPR: Displaced Workers Face Tough Labor Market (7/19/04) CBPP: 13 Weeks of Temporary Federal Benefits Remains Appropriate (5/6/04) CHN: Recent Unemployment Legislation (5/11/04) EPI: Large Increase in Unemployment of College-Educated People Since Early 2001 (4/21/04)
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