New York State’s $2.1 Billion Excluded Workers Fund: A Program Evaluation
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Expanding Inclusion in the Social Safety Net: Impacts of New York’s Excluded Workers Fund
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Refugee Resettlement Is Still Below its Level Before the Trump Years
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Worker Power Series: Lessons for Building Better Policies for Excluded Workers
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Providing Unemployment Insurance to Immigrants and Other Excluded Workers: A State Roadmap for Inclusive Benefits
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Immigrants’ Experience with Medicaid Enrollment: Challenges and Recommendations
Medicaid enrollment can be a daunting process for many people—both U.S.-born New Yorkers and those who are foreign-born.
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NYS Immigrants and People of Color: New Unemployment Gaps During the Pandemic
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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Administration of the Excluded Worker Fund in NY: How It’s Structured
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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Excluded Worker Fund: $3 Billion Needed in FY 2022-23
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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Excluded Worker Fund: Crucial Support, But More Is Needed
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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