Can My Boss Do That? Interfaith Worker Justice: work rules, hiring/ firing, safety, pay, benefits, time off, rights
Unemployment Insurance, US Dept. of Labor
Unemployment Insurance, Washington Ctr for Equitable Growth
The Next Recession Is Really Gonna Suck: The extra help unemployed people got during the Great Recession has emboldened states to mistreat them. Delaney, Huff Post 2/18
State Unemployment Insurance Locators, US Dept. of Labor
Closing Doors on the Unemployed: Why Most Jobless Workers Are Not Receiving Unemployment Insurance and What States Can Do About It, Wentworth, NELP 12/17
How Low Can We Go? State Unemployment Insurance Programs Exclude Record Numbers of Jobless Workers Kimball & McHugh, EPI 3/15
How Many Weeks of Unemployment Compensation Are Available? CBPP 7/13
Extended Benefits Didn’t Keep Unemployed from Taking Jobs 5/13
Web Pages on Unemployment Insurance–Dept of Labor [DOL]
Introduction to Unemployment Insurance, Stone & Chen, CBPP 2/13
Should Unemployment Benefits be Extended? R. Chetty 5/10
Unemployment Lifeline, Working America AFL-CIO
Philadelphia Unemployment Project
The Job for Unemployed Workers and Their Allies, Goldberg
Unemployed Organizing in the 1930s
Organizing the Unemployed: The Early 1930s G. Black
Animation: How Unemployment Insurance Helps Families and the Economy
Extended Unemployment Benefits
The 10 Worst States in Which to Lose Your Job, 4/11
Toward a Strong Unemployment Insurance System, Boushey & Eizenga, CAP 2/11
What happens to people when their unemployment insurance runs out and they still can’t find a job? Lowrey, Slate, 12/10
Unemployment Insurance Extension May Be Short-Lived, Bloom, 10/10
Unemployment Insurance: A Broken System, M. Hill, Reprint, $ & Sense, 2/10
Unemployed Workers site: Laid Off and Left Out, NELP
Keeping a First Line of Defense for the Jobless, Boushey, Emsellem et al, CAP 12/09
Unemployment Insurance Buckles After Years of Underfunding, Pierce, Propublica5/09
Slumping Economy Tests Aid System Tied to Jobs, DeParle, NYT, 5/09
Crazy-Quilt Jobless Programs Help Some More Than Others, Dugan, WSJ, 4/09
Unemployment Insurance: Issue Guide EPI, 2/04
“Why Most Who Lose Their Jobs Don’t Get Unemployment Benefits,” Reich 7/08
Best And Worst Cities For Unemployment Pay, Matt Woolsey, Forbes, 6/08
World’s Best Places For Unemployment Pay, Woolsey, Forbes, 6/08
Extending unemployment benefits stimulates economy and helps workers, EPI, 1/08
Forum and information for jobless and underemployed workers
UI is not a safety net for unemployed former welfare recipients CEPR
Finding the better fit: Receiving unemployment insurance increases likelihood of re-employment with health insurance EPI and CEPR