Unemployment Insurance is the main U.S. government program that helps workers who lose a job through no fault of their own. By paying eligible workers a portion of their normal wage while they look for work, Unemployment Insurance mitigates the hardship faced by individual unemployed workers and simultaneously stabilizes the macroeconomy. Equitable Growth works to stimulate and disseminate research on the role Unemployment Insurance plays in the lives of workers and the economy as a whole.
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Equitable Growth and The Hamilton Project bring together policymakers and academics to discuss how to fight the coronavirus recession
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Moving from Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation to a job losers’ stimulus program amid the coronavirus recession
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Coronavirus recession deepens U.S. job losses in April especially among low-wage workers and women
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More resilient small U.S. restaurants and their workers can exit the coronavirus recession and sustain an equitable economic recovery
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Why workers are engaging in collective action across the United States in response to the coronavirus crisis
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Fool Me Once: Investing in Unemployment Insurance systems to avoid the mistakes of the Great Recession during COVID-19
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