Advocates and legislators in New York State are currently considering the widest-ranging program in the country to fill key gaps in its unemployment insurance system: the Unemployment Bridge Program. The… Read more
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Response to the COVID-19 pandemic and recession spurred a wave of policy innovation around the country. The pandemic revealed weak spots in our social safety net, and governments scrambled to… Read more
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Response to the COVID-19 pandemic and recession spurred a wave of policy innovation around the country. The pandemic revealed weak spots in our social safety net, and governments scrambled to… Read more
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Unions have been in the news recently in a way that is exciting and new. Amazon warehouses saw the first successful union effort ever. Individual Starbucks stores are voting one… Read more
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Immigrants without work authorization perform crucial jobs in our economy, but are denied unemployment benefits when they lose work. States are looking to change this, and to address other systemic… Read more
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Job loss during the covid pandemic skyrocketed for all workers, yet for immigrants the unemployment rate spiked far higher than for U.S.-born workers.
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Implementation of the Excluded Worker Fund went smoothly and reached 130,000 New Yorkers. Read about lessons for other states…and reasons to replenish the fund.
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In April 2021 New York’s governor and legislature included in the state budget a groundbreaking program to ensure that all New York workers had some form of unemployment compensation during the Covid recession.
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Through the depths of the withering Covid recession, regular Unemployment Insurance and emergency Pandemic Unemployment Assistance provided crucial income support for most people who lost their jobs.
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In her State of the State address this year, Governor Kathy Hochul floated a proposal to subsidize farm owners as they make a transition to a new standard for overtime pay.
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