Expanded unemployment insurance: The bill would direct $2 billion to state unemployment insurance programs.
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And they haven't paid into the unemployment insurance fund, so they're not going to be covered by unemployment insurance.
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I believe these should be in the form of cash supplements to state unemployment insurance benefits and should be triggered upon application by workers for unemployment insurance.
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A fundamental problem with using the unemployment insurance program to operate a paid leave program has to do with how the federal and state unemployment insurance responsibilities are divided.
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A recent analysis found that if the "consensus" paid leave plan is added to unemployment insurance, it would double current unemployment insurance taxes, adding roughly $28500 in taxes for workers each year.
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Whether workers can get state unemployment insurance or federally funded pandemic unemployment assistance, according to NELP, they all go through the same state unemployment insurance portal and benefits are calculated the same.
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He also called for a new form of unemployment insurance.
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Democrats said the GOP offer on unemployment insurance was inadequate.
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" Ueland said negotiators "made tremendous progress today on unemployment insurance.
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For contract workers, the program would act like unemployment insurance.
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Why not just do this through SNAP or unemployment insurance?
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Expanded unemployment insurance has been a top priority as well.
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Unemployment insurance had a roughly similar impact on poverty levels.
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Related indicators: Initial claims for unemployment insurance; payroll job growth.
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Whether someone receives government benefits like unemployment insurance is irrelevant.
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Some states, such as Virginia, allow self-employed individuals to opt in to the unemployment insurance program if they incorporate, hire themselves as a W-2 worker and pay unemployment insurance on their wages.
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The euro area has no shared deposit protection or unemployment insurance.
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There is no continent-wide deposit or unemployment insurance, for instance.
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Some are looking for temporary work or applying for unemployment insurance.
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Currently, unemployment insurance systems are funded largely through employer payroll taxes.
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But they would not receive the minimum wage or unemployment insurance.
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In January, the average unemployment-insurance check was $385 per week.
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For the first time, these workers will qualify for unemployment insurance.
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Tens of thousands of Americans already have applied for unemployment insurance.
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Imagine if workers could rely on strong, well-funded unemployment insurance.
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He said it would give $250 billion dollars for unemployment insurance.
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The initial impacts of the crisis will likely strain unemployment insurance.
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Four Republican senators came out against the emergency unemployment insurance provision.
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It's $600 above what you would ordinarily get from unemployment insurance.
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They want more money for hospitals and unemployment insurance, as well.
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Under the New Deal, we got Social Security and unemployment insurance.
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Claims for unemployment insurance recently hit a nearly 50-year low.
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The leave will be administered and funded through state unemployment insurance systems.
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The Senate bill as drafted would provide three months of unemployment insurance.
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Only certain workers who have been paying into unemployment get unemployment insurance.
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Uber disagrees, and does not pay into unemployment insurance or report wages.
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But many state unemployment insurance programs are ill-prepared for the downturn.
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This would kick in benefits like paid sick leave and unemployment insurance.
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The Senate bill aims to help small businesses and improves unemployment insurance.
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And unemployment insurance benefits will be extended for up to 39 weeks.
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"In the Republican package there was nothing on unemployment insurance," Stabenow said.
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That's unemployment insurance for individuals working full time to launch a business.
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Food stamps, unemployment insurance, disability benefits all get the same treatment. Why?
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Unemployment insurance is meant to help people while they are between jobs.
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Arensmeyer's group is also calling on lawmakers to, among other things, extend special unemployment insurance to self-employed workers, and prevent small businesses from having to pay higher unemployment insurance premiums next year as a result of the pandemic.
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But Beveridge would recognise today's NHS, and FDR would recognise America's unemployment insurance.
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Reform to unemployment insurance and apprenticeships will also be in the draft legislation.
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Nearly 2.5 million Brazilians are living on unemployment insurance, which lasts five months.
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In parts of America, disability insurance functions as a kind of unemployment insurance.
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Under current laws, sex workers can collect public unemployment insurance and medical coverage.
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They would also be covered by unemployment insurance, workers compensation and Social Security.
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However, the number of federal employees applying for unemployment insurance has spiked dramatically.
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Some benefits, like unemployment insurance and veterans' benefits, could be delayed or reduced.
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They will recieve other federal benefits including unemployment insurance, workers compensation, and overtime.
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Trump has said he'd cover the cost by rooting out unemployment insurance fraud.
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Democrats said Republicans backtracked on a tentative agreement to substantially increase unemployment insurance.
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But a lasting recession could also drain some states' unemployment insurance program coffers.
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Almost 2200 million Americans applied for unemployment insurance the week ended March 21.
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We have also secured enhanced Unemployment insurance for those who lose their jobs.
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But others, including Social Security, unemployment insurance and federal agricultural subsidies, still exist.
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The provision calls for states to establish leave programs based on unemployment insurance.
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By nearly every measure, state unemployment insurance programs are protecting fewer jobless workers.
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Lawmakers established the unemployment insurance program in 1935 under the Social Security Act.
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Rousseff reduced the scope of unemployment insurance last year to help curb government spending.
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In exchange, McConnell also agreed to a one-year extension of unemployment insurance benefits.
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The aid would be funded by the States through their individual unemployment insurance programs.
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And formal safety nets, like pensions and unemployment insurance, do their jobs as advertised.
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These include programs such as wage enforcement, unemployment insurance, and worker health and safety.
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Others think it's based on the number of people receiving unemployment insurance — also incorrect.
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The amendments voted on included changes to unemployment insurance provisions introduced by Republican Sen.
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Democrats secured $250 billion in additional unemployment insurance payments, which some top Republicans opposed.
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But for almost everything else, you can use unemployment insurance, the SNAP program, Medicaid.
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It extends unemployment insurance to gig workers, including four months of $600 per week.
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It expanded the eligibility for unemployment insurance to its longest duration ever, 99 weeks.
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"Uber drivers in New York, for unemployment insurance purposes, are considered employees," says Salk.
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Ideas: payroll tax reductions, more generous unemployment insurance benefits, federal lending to small businesses.
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States could also raise the dollar amount of food stamps and unemployment insurance checks.
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Last week, the office saw a 363 percent spike in processed unemployment insurance claims.
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That means no minimum wage, no unemployment insurance, no benefits and no workers' compensation.
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Relative to other developed countries — for example, Scandinavian ones — we have thinner unemployment insurance programs.
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Third, it places the burden of an unfunded mandate on individual states' unemployment-insurance programs.
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Federal employees filing for unemployment insurance spiked 143 percent in the week ending Jan. 85033.
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I have also added a provision to make self-employed workers eligible for unemployment insurance.
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In a win for Democrats the bill will provide $28503 billion to expand unemployment insurance.
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Up next US unemployment insurance claims for the past week arrive at 8:30 a.m.
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It will also provide emergency paid sick leave and expand unemployment insurance, among other things.
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This raises an obvious question: Are enough of these people going to get unemployment insurance?
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With the coronavirus outbreak leading to increased layoffs across industries, unemployment insurance claims are skyrocketing.
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The bill approved Wednesday bolsters unemployment insurance and guarantees free diagnostic testing for the coronavirus.
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Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) had reached on expanding unemployment insurance.
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In a win for Democrats the bill will provide $250 billion to expand unemployment insurance.
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Claims for unemployment insurance recently hit a nearly 22007-year low, and paychecks are growing.
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One of the programs that's been cut the most in recent decades is unemployment insurance.
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Expanded unemployment insurance: The bill would direct $803 billion to state unemployment insurance programs and waive measures like work search requirements or waiting weeks to those either diagnosed with Covid-19, or those who have lost their jobs due to the spread of the virus.
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The way they work is unemployment insurance applies to people to the first $7,000 of earnings.
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Instead, support for the hardest-hit families and the economy, like unemployment insurance, should rise automatically.
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Businesses in North Carolina once owed the federal government more than $2.5 billion for unemployment insurance.
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He would accomplish this by amending the existing unemployment insurance that companies are required to carry.
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Trump proposed to pay for the program by reducing improper payments in the unemployment insurance program.
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The plan would be federally-funded, but it would be administered through state unemployment insurance programs.
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Unemployment insurance served as a true safety net, catching someone without work for the first time.
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Then respondents were asked for their thoughts on various government programs, including TANF and unemployment insurance.
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"There are areas of imprecision such as with regard to retirement and unemployment insurance," he said.
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It's not surprising when you consider there's already been a dramatic bump in unemployment insurance claims.
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That's a significant boost from the average weekly unemployment-insurance check, which was $385 in January.
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One of the first lines of defense in any recession is the unemployment insurance (UI) system.
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Various states have seen unemployment insurance phone lines jammed as recently laid-off workers call in.
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"It has unemployment insurance on steroids," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday of the package.
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Those lower-paid people laid off by your organization would have better unemployment insurance there, too.
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Between 10 million and 13 million Iranians are entirely excluded from health, work or unemployment insurance.
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Think of unemployment insurance benefits, which pump more money into the economy when joblessness is high.
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We have also secured enhanced Unemployment Insurance, a step that will extend protections to furloughed workers.
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The payments Cotton is targeting would come from either unemployment insurance or through a tax rebate.
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Democrats, instead, are focusing on policy proposals like paid sick leave and bolstering unemployment insurance. Sen.
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The nation's unemployment insurance program has run into a big problem, labor experts and advocates say.
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Details of how the plan would be funded—by eliminating fraud in unemployment insurance—are murky.
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But "the policy details matter," Shabo said, particularly the potential impact on state unemployment insurance programs.
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"There are other issues ahead: unemployment insurance, pension reform, the matter of public services," Mailly said.
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Federal employees are covered by a separate unemployment insurance system parallel to that for other workers.
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At a micro level, unemployment insurance provides temporary income support for workers who lose their jobs.
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The Labor Department oversees federal regulation of occupational safety, wage and hour standards and unemployment insurance benefits.
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Trump's plan would expand unemployment insurance to include six weeks of paid maternity leave for new mothers.
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Some firms offer top-ups to state-provided unemployment insurance, which is paid during episodes of joblessness.
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Second, state unemployment insurance systems vary widely in terms of eligibility and the generosity of the benefit.
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The wage insurance proposal will be included in a broader effort to overhaul the unemployment insurance system.
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He would also provide six weeks of paid maternity leave for new mothers through temporary unemployment insurance.
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First-time claims for state unemployment insurance benefits fell from the previous week, coming in below expectations.
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And first-time claims for unemployment insurance have remained at low levels not seen since the 1970s.
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The current unemployment insurance system implicitly imagines a world of generic workers, generic companies, and generic skills.
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It called to expand unemployment insurance and support for small businesses, potentially through loans and tax deferrals.
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Income Social Security disability Head Start Medicare Earned-income tax credit Unemployment insurance G.I. Bill Child/dep.
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The new coronavirus bill was not the first to address unemployment insurance in response to the pandemic.
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But, combined with using the unemployment insurance system for work sharing, these steps could substantially subsidize payroll.
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On average, a person on unemployment insurance currently receives $385 per week, so this boost is significant.
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Those claiming unemployment insurance would be able to secure this expanded support for up to four months.
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The House has already passed a second coronavirus package, focused on paid leave and bolstering unemployment insurance.
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But critics counter that the system is exploitative and deprives employees of important safeguards like unemployment insurance.
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Andrew Cuomo said Friday that the state would waive the seven-day waiting period for unemployment insurance.
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Governments could provide income support through adjustments to welfare and labor market programs, such as unemployment insurance.
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Federal and state governments should work together to increase funding for unemployment insurance and expand its accessibility.
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States need to make it easy for those people to get unemployment insurance benefits and food stamps.
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A lot of people are cutting hours, keeping people on, but they can't necessarily collect unemployment insurance.
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An emergency fund, unemployment insurance, or a new job can help get you through this uncertain time.
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The final language is still being drafted, but progress could be derailed over unemployment insurance (UI) benefits.
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A more substantial euro-zone budget, focused on unemployment insurance, say, could help integrate euro-zone economies.
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The bill includes what Democrats call "unemployment insurance on steroids" and emergency funding for states and hospitals.
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But Uber's benefits plan does not include unemployment insurance, the protection drivers seek most under current circumstances.
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The bill would focus on paid leave, enhanced unemployment insurance, food assistance and help for small businesses.
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There is no welfare for the long-term unemployed, but laid-off workers get some unemployment insurance.
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Over the preceding year, more than 6900,2628 workers had filed a new unemployment insurance claim every week.
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For instance, Democrats support things like minimum wage, unemployment insurance, affordable child care and family paid leave.
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The costs of doing business — utility costs, unemployment insurance costs, workman's compensation costs, land costs — are low.
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Mr Trump has said the leave will be funded through savings made by eliminating fraud in unemployment insurance.
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But it might include targeted investment spending, say, or shared unemployment insurance, to shield against deep economic downturns.
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Under current rules, salaried employees contribute 3 percent of their pre-tax income toward the unemployment insurance system.
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The Labour Department crunches economic statistics, administers unemployment insurance and workers' compensations schemes, and investigates unsafe working conditions.
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Third, wage replacement rates in unemployment insurance systems are typically 45 percent to 50 percent of lost wages.
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He wants to promote formal jobs by cutting severance pay, replacing it with unemployment insurance for new hires.
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It also includes direct payments to some citizens, a stimulus for the airline industry, and increased unemployment insurance.
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GOP aides noted the final package retains largely the same unemployment insurance and direct payments schemes originally outlined.
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While outstanding issues remain, Democrats are expected to get a win with $250 billion allocated to unemployment insurance.
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The majority of states maintain sufficient unemployment insurance reserves to weather a recession, according to Labor Department data.
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Before the pandemic hit the US, initial unemployment insurance claims were between roughly 210,000 and 230,000 a week.
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It expands unemployment insurance to contractors, the self-employed, and nonprofit/government employees who are not typically eligible.
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Finally, the bill would make leaving one's job for compelling family reasons an eligible cause for unemployment insurance.
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"Any of those federal employees who are furloughed, come in and we'll get you unemployment insurance," he said.
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Pelosi has said the House and Senate should consider refundable tax credits, expanded unemployment insurance and direct payments.
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Earlier this month DOL advised states that workers affected by the coronavirus are eligible for unemployment insurance benefits.
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The classification would give gig workers access to benefits such as paid sick leave, unemployment insurance and more.
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For the week ending March 21, claims for unemployment insurance hit an all-time high of 3.3 million.
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And then hopefully, for the small number of people that are laid off, there is enhanced unemployment insurance.
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The legislation offers an additional 13 weeks — roughly three months — of unemployment insurance, funded by the federal government.
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Schumer said he would also ask McConnell to "massively expand unemployment insurance" when they sit down to negotiate.
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Goldman Sachs predicted that unemployment insurance claims could hit a record-breaking 2.25 million Americans this week alone.
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Because their employers don't pay into unemployment insurance, the workers haven't been able to obtain those benefits either.
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The legislation also gives farm workers compensation benefits and unemployment insurance and mandates farmers have better working conditions.
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These include unemployment insurance, food stamps (now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) and disability programs.
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Things like disability and unemployment insurance have anti-work incentives (Google "Poverty Trap"!), and that has to change.
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Today, however, the unemployment insurance programs in many states are failing the people whom they're meant to help.
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Since 2014, only slightly more than one in four unemployed workers is receiving a state unemployment insurance benefit.
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The ratings reflect Unedic's mission as sole manager of the French unemployment insurance system (UIS) under state delegation.
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Uber, Lyft and other companies employing gig workers don't pay taxes that fund states' unemployment insurance trust funds.
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Informal workers are excluded from safety-net programmes such as pension plans, unemployment insurance and some public-health services.
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The fund could take the form of a European Unemployment Insurance Scheme, the paper said, complementing national unemployment plans.
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Misclassifying employees also allows businesses to avoid paying unemployment insurance, disability insurance, health insurance premiums, and workers' compensation benefits.
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One position was on the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and the other was on the Medical Assistance Commission.
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It does not help that unemployment insurance varies wildly across states—something else Mr Obama would like to change.
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If the Department of Labour accepts a petition for TAA, workers get an extension to their unemployment-insurance payments.
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Caseloads during the recession increased far less than the number of people receiving food stamps or unemployment insurance benefits.
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He proposed requiring employers to give six weeks of maternity leave, with payments made by the unemployment insurance system.
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Employers can't be relied on for pensions; only 27 percent of all unemployed workers are covered by unemployment insurance.
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Claims for unemployment insurance have a strong seasonal component and normally peak during the first quarter of each year.
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More than $3 billion was spent incorrectly in the unemployment insurance system, meaning the error rate is 12.9 percent.
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GAO also recommended legislation to keep people from collecting both disability insurance and unemployment insurance at the same time.
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Despite these challenges, Nightingale says the best way to file for unemployment insurance benefits is to do so online.
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"It's the most generous unemployment insurance plus-up by far ever in the history of our country," he said.
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Democrats are pushing for additional assistance for workers, including boosting paid family leave and sick leave and unemployment insurance.
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It also strengthens existing unemployment insurance and food assistance programs, and will provide free diagnostic testing for the virus.
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Schumer touted the bill as "worker-friendly," pointing to its billions for unemployment insurance benefits and small business loans.
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Barclay said he laid off the dozen people on his staff so they could quickly apply for unemployment insurance.
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"The unemployment insurance reform is making progress, proposals on retirement should come soon, there's no underlying change," Lorenzi added.
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Many states, most notably Washington, already have valuable experience administering social insurance programs like paid leave and unemployment insurance.
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They include an overhaul of the unemployment insurance system and of social security payments, and a downsizing of government.
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Ms. Opper said she planned to file for unemployment insurance and hoped to get benefits, at least on appeal.
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"These are people who are now furloughed and can collect unemployment insurance or take a second job," he said.
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Senate Democrats on Wednesday unveiled proposals including small business grants, federal funding for local communities and emergency unemployment insurance.
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Among the multi-billion dollar package's provisions are paid sick leave, widespread free testing, food aid and unemployment insurance.
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A record number of people in the US filed claims for unemployment insurance last week amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Minnesota said it was receiving over 2,000 unemployment insurance applications per hour, compared to the usual 40 or 50.
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Although you cannot claim unemployment insurance, S.D.I. and P.F.L. at the same time, you can use these benefits consecutively.
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Step 1: Gather information and documentationIf you've lost your job, you want to apply for unemployment insurance right away.
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Here's how to file for unemployment insurance benefits, whether you're laid off, furloughed, or your hours are severely reduced.
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Democrats also pushed back, arguing that unemployment insurance must be expanded to provide stability beyond a one-time payment.
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Only three states — Texas, Mississippi and Wisconsin — have passed laws to allow drug testing for their unemployment insurance programs.
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Unlike contractors, employees have to be given a minimum wage and are eligible for overtime pay and unemployment insurance.
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Unemployment insurance offers workers who've lost their job "through no fault of their own " compensation for a set period.
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Officials also talk of a rainy day fund, an unemployment insurance scheme and a fund to support investment in crisis.
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For example, unemployment insurance was created in 1935 as a central pillar of the social insurance system for American workers.
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Figure Out Whether You're Eligible For the most part, unemployment insurance only applies to people who have been laid off.
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The government agreed to cut the unemployment insurance contribution rate by 0.5 percentage point to 2.5 percent starting in 2019.
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Back in the early 1980s, most benefits other than Social Security and unemployment insurance were exclusively for the very destitute.
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The second part is paid by the gig or the hour, and receives no benefits, workers' comp or unemployment insurance.
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Officials also talk of a "rainy day fund", an unemployment insurance scheme and a fund to support investment in crisis.
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He trimmed discretionary spending by a record 19883 billion reais ($18 billion) in 2015 and tightened eligibility for unemployment insurance.
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The proposal allows states to establish their own family leave programs paid for by reforms to the unemployment insurance system.
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But from the perspective of Michigan's unemployment insurance agency, it might be seen as a success, if a Machiavellian one.
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States would be required to provide six weeks of parental leave, paid for through the Labor Department's unemployment-insurance program.
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As employees, they would be entitled to basic protections and benefits, such as overtime pay, health care and unemployment insurance.
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Independent contractors, because they aren't "employees," don't qualify for government protections like federal minimum wage, unemployment insurance, or discrimination protection.
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The national unemployment insurance claim rate has edged down from 2340 percent to 2000 percent over the last 23.2 months.
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And since more people in Texas will be eligible for federal welfare programs, like unemployment insurance, federal outlays will increase.
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Trump aide says 6 weeks of guaranteed paid maternity leave will be paid for by eliminating fraud in unemployment insurance.
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Major automakers have idled plants in North America for at least a week, forcing employees to rely on unemployment insurance.
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The duration of eligibility for unemployment insurance in any given state won't be affected by the legislation moving through Congress.
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The bill also calls for expanded funding for state unemployment insurance programs to handle the imminent pressure on the system.
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Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich says the best thing in the $2.2 trillion stimulus bill is the unemployment insurance provision.
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This would be in addition to current jobless benefits offered by the states, which administer their own unemployment insurance programs.
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"Unemployment insurance offices have been completely overwhelmed with claims and are having a tough time handling the volume," Houseman said.
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Under the CARES Act, independent contractors may be eligible for Unemployment Insurance as well as the additional $600 per week.
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When you do that, you'll be directed to your state-specific unemployment insurance program where you can file for unemployment.
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You may also want to look into employer and government benefits, like sick leave, unemployment insurance, and paid family leave.
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Here's how to file for unemployment insurance benefits, whether you're laid off, furloughed, or have had your hours severely reduced.
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Among those priorities are paid sick leave, enhanced unemployment insurance, expansion of food stamps and free testing for the virus.
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The idea is similar to unemployment insurance, which automatically extends benefits for unemployed workers when the job market is weak.
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Make sure you're eligible for unemployment If you were laid off without cause, you will likely qualify for unemployment insurance.
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The Conference Board tracks 10 components, including manufacturers' new orders, stock prices and average weekly initial claims for unemployment insurance.
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"If workers are forced to contribute, and it replaces unemployment insurance, then it would save the government money, " Gruber said.
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Mr. Trump's budget says that the unemployment insurance benefits should be taken into account when disability insurance benefits are awarded.
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But states without strong unemployment insurance programs will experience profound pain when the next economic downturn happens, and it will.
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As the National Employment Law Project (NELP) points out, using existing unemployment insurance as the source of funding is unworkable.
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Even under the new law, these workers don't benefit from company leave policies, unemployment insurance, worker's compensation, or the FMLA.
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The government doesn't have very many measures to help in a situation like that, because unemployment insurance is time-delimited.
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The state-level experimentation that led to the creation of federal unemployment insurance is what the nation stands to lose.
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Unlike contractors, employees are protected by minimum-wage and overtime rules and are entitled to workers' compensation and unemployment insurance.
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Ultimately, under Trump's plan, it would be up to states to pay for the benefit through their unemployment insurance programs.
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Those kinds of taxes — like the one for unemployment insurance coverage — are deductible for businesses under the Republican tax law.
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Gavin Newsom has pledged that California will provide unemployment insurance benefits for furloughed workers impacted by the partial federal government shutdown.
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Meanwhile, unions and employers are protective of their decades-old grip over the unemployment insurance benefits system worth billions of euros.
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He also defended his idea of a Europe-wide unemployment insurance system to shield workers from mass unemployment during economic crisis.
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The most efficient, robust solution would be to strengthen our key social insurance programs: Social Security, health insurance and unemployment insurance.
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Long lines of jobless people - applying for work or for unemployment insurance - have formed in cities across Brazil in recent months.
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Cooper, the furloughed EPA employee, said she applied for unemployment insurance but it still won't be sufficient to make ends meet.
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A measure of future economic conditions fell last month as claims for unemployment insurance rose sharply, according to a new report.
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"Housing permits, unemployment insurance claims, and the interest rate spread were the main components lifting the index in September," Ozyildirim said.
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In December the State Council announced that firms which refrain from firing staff can get 50% refunds on unemployment-insurance payments.
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Social Security and unemployment insurance are, well, insurance programs: They're supposed to replace wages forgone due to retirement, disability, or unemployment.
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Unemployment insurance claims would henceforth be automatically verified and scrutinized, resulting in 20113,427 accusations of fraud over the next two years.
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Without such effective automatic switches, Congress has had to enact "emergency" unemployment insurance expansions during or after every recession since 1970.
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This is accomplished by allowing workers to put in fewer hours while having much of the difference offset by unemployment insurance.
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The report also advocates improved unemployment insurance, and wage insurance programs that would provide income to people whose pay gets cut.
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He plans an overhaul of unemployment insurance and professional training starting in coming months, followed by the retirement system next year.
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There was no agreement to use such a budget for the stabilization of the euro zone through an unemployment insurance scheme.
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The University of Washington study looked at all low-wage workers in Seattle, using data from Washington State's unemployment insurance program.
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The costs of the wage insurance program are covered as part of a larger overall of how unemployment insurance taxes work.
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It's an open question whether recalled workers will be able to claim unemployment insurance since the laws vary state by state.
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The government will also tighten unemployment insurance eligibility and reshape professional training programs to push the jobless into work more quickly.
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"There's some disagreement on direct payment checks versus unemployment insurance, versus what a good lending program would look like," he said.
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Dube additionally notes that beyond the $600, there's little for people with too little earnings to normally qualify for unemployment insurance.
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While the Recovery Act in 20093 included more generous unemployment insurance, it only expanded support by $22009 per week for recipients.
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The legislation guarantees direct payment to most adults, as well as expanded unemployment insurance for workers who have been laid off.
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Perhaps as he applies for unemployment insurance, he might also consider placing himself somewhere on the Ohio election ballot for 2020.
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While the Trump administration is unlikely to end unemployment insurance, the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program expired at the end of 2013.
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Unemployment surged as some 103,210 Americans filed first-time claims for unemployment insurance, up by 2300 percent from the week before.
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Stettner explains it simply: "Unemployment insurance is just based on what you did in the prior week, and why," he says.
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Unemployment insurance provides temporary support for people who have worked steadily for years and who can show they're looking for work.
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The Senate hasn't yet scheduled a vote on the bill, which includes provisions around expanded unemployment insurance and paid sick leave.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell backed the House bill, which grants paid sick leave to hourly employees and expands unemployment insurance.
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For those laid off, unemployment insurance could be temporarily enhanced, by extending its duration, increasing benefits, or relaxing eligibility, Gopinath wrote.
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A group of Republican senators is threatening to stall the $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill over unemployment insurance benefits, causing Sen.
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While unemployment insurance is provided by the states, the federal government can offer states extra funding if they cover more workers.
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His bill would provide opportunities for workers to receive unemployment insurance for the income they lost if their hours were cut.
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Others point to strong consumer lending and low claims for unemployment insurance as reasons to downplay the possibility of a recession.
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The next round of unemployment insurance claims could spike to an unprecedented 2.25 million, according to an analysis from Goldman Sachs.
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Armen Meyer, vice president of public policy and regulatory strategy at LendingClub, says expanding unemployment insurance will be another key component.
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The House package is expected to provide support for workers, including expanded unemployment insurance, paid sick leave and food security assistance.
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Farm work, housekeeping and other jobs disproportionately staffed by African-Americans were omitted from programs like Social Security and unemployment insurance.
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One troubling trend has been states cutting the maximum number of weeks that an unemployed worker can receive unemployment insurance benefits.
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At end-2016 it provided compulsory unemployment insurance to 16.8 million private sector employees and unemployment benefits to 3.4 million jobseekers.
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In Texas, the program is administered by the Texas Workforce Commission, whose responsibilities include workforce development and resources like unemployment insurance.
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The senator also called for unemployment insurance of up to 100% of a worker's prior salary with a cap of $75,000.
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The $100 billion bill included provisions for emergency paid leave for workers at big businesses, expanded unemployment insurance and free testing.
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Brown appointed her to the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and the California Medical Assistance Commission, both of which paid comfortable salaries.
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I would get rid of EITC [the earned income tax credit], food stamps, [and] unemployment insurance, and substitute cash for it.
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If you make the unemployment insurance more generous than the pay for the workers, you could set up an environment where the companies had an incentive to actually go lay off their workers and they'd tell them, "Well, you can get a better deal by going on to the unemployment insurance program," I think that'd be a mistake.
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But the one group he hasn't shamed is those who are applying for food stamps or who may be needing unemployment insurance.
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The Federal State of Lower Saxony, the Federal State of Thuringia, and Unedic, the French unemployment insurance agency, hit the market today.
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There is a mention, too, of an unemployment-stabilisation fund to act as an emergency credit line for national unemployment-insurance schemes.
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One example, Dynamis, is a peer-to-peer supplemental unemployment insurance protocol that uses the policy holders' social capital to replace underwriters.
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America has arguably the least generous unemployment insurance and cash welfare programs in the developed world, and offers minimal early retirement support.
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The general government deficit in 2016 was lower than expected due to higher unemployment insurance contributions and a lower government wage bill.
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Many people who don't pay federal income tax do work and owe payroll taxes, which support Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment insurance.
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Figures provided by the spokesperson indicate that New Jersey's estimated unemployment insurance tax payments exceed how active Uber is in the state.
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Federal lawmakers set the unemployment insurance minimum benefit requirements, while state legislators set and collect payroll taxes that pay for those benefits.
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The federal government has already accelerated the process for making unemployment insurance claims for Fort McMurray residents left jobless by the fire.
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Given these numbers, it's not surprising that the Department of Labor recently reported an impressive drop in initial claims for unemployment insurance.
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It would pay the unemployment insurance benefits of more than 219,210 Americans getting the average weekly check of $235 for six months.
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Analysts at these firms estimated that anywhere from 860,000 to 4 million Americans filed to receive unemployment insurance, a record-breaking spike.
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In January, the average unemployment insurance check was $385 per week, as Vox noted, so an additional $600 is a huge jump.
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New Unemployment Insurance claims are pouring into state labor departments at a pace that's so unprecedented it's quite literally off the charts.
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And it's going to break the unemployment insurance system unless Congress takes some quick steps to inject funds and change the rules.
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The deal offered $250 billion directly to Americans, as well as 39 weeks of unemployment insurance to eligible workers, according to Axios.
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The House also passed a second bill over the weekend to provide for paid leave for some employees and strengthen unemployment insurance.
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Internet search interest for "unemployment insurance" is on the rise; presumably, recently laid off workers are trying to determine how to file.
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California officials have emphasized that people may be eligible for unemployment insurance if they can't work because their child's school is closed.
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The legislation also directs $1 billion into emergency state grants for providing unemployment insurance benefits and increases funding for food assistance programs.
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While these companies are able to subside some financial worries, these workers are still left without disability, family leave and unemployment insurance.
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The state is looking for ways to fund sick leave for people whose employers do not provide it, such as unemployment insurance.
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But under pressure from social partners, he is also proposing a minimum safety net, including extending unemployment insurance to the self-employed.
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All employers who pay unemployment insurance for their workers are required to sign up by 2020 — about 60,000 workplaces and 103,000 workers.
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These provisions would be in addition to any benefits currently offered by a worker's state, which administer their own unemployment insurance programs.
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The unprecedented 3.2 million jump in unemployment insurance claims is just one indication of the near total clampdown of the U.S. economy.
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You can apply for unemployment insurance online, or by mailing or faxing the application to the Employment Development Department (Spanish version here).
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If passed, it could make Uber and Lyft responsible for traditional employment benefits like paid sick leave, unemployment insurance, and workers compensation.
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Fill out an application through your state's unemployment website You should apply for unemployment insurance as soon as you're no longer working.
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Before this order, the governor reported that last week the Virginia Employment Commission had received more than 40,000 applications for unemployment insurance.
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The number of workers filing initial claims for unemployment insurance (UI) has been below 300,2023 since the first week in March 2015.
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This meant they have mostly not been obligated to provide minimum wage, overtime pay, workers' compensation, unemployment insurance and paid sick leave.
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These include reducing eligibility for unemployment insurance, means-testing social benefits, and legal changes that reduce the bargaining power of labor unions.
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"We're certainly prepared for an influx of claims," said William Walton, the director of unemployment insurance services at the Virginia Employment Commission.
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Still, officials said unemployment insurance usually offers the surest way to assist furloughed workers, even though they can be reluctant to apply.
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But states had been talking about it for two decades, and seven had already passed unemployment insurance provisions when Congress got involved.
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As employees, drivers would be protected by minimum wage and overtime rules and would be eligible for workers' compensation and unemployment insurance.
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It would likely require states to raise unemployment insurance taxes on employers, something that will not be received well in many states.
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President Emmanuel Macron also wants to bring the national unemployment insurance fund, currently jointly run by unions and employers, under the state's control.
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These employers avoid paying their share of employment taxes as well as other expenses such as workers' compensation, unemployment insurance, and other benefits.
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Companies would also be required to give six weeks of paid maternity leave for birth mothers, paid for through existing unemployment insurance programs.
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This includes improvements and expansions to services like unemployment insurance and Medicaid, as well as job-search assistance and a higher minimum wage.
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Scholz has suggested the creation of a Europe-wide unemployment insurance system to make the euro zone more resilient to future economic shocks.
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The White House budget proposed to crack down on "improper" unemployment insurance payments, claiming it will save as much as $536 per person.
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A legal finding that drivers are employees could raise Uber's costs and force it to pay Social Security, workers' compensation, and unemployment insurance.
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He has proposed paying for it by cracking down on fraud in the unemployment insurance program and through other changes to the system.
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Applications for unemployment insurance rose 20,000, to a seasonally adjusted 85003,000, for the week ending May 7, the Labor Department reported on Thursday.
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Private unemployment insurance is now available in the U.S. We also look at how a Trump White House would affect your 21953(k).
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After being fired, Wilson alleges the company allowed her to continue working for three weeks so Wilson would be eligible for unemployment insurance.
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They apply only to their unemployment insurance claims and do not directly affect other drivers or extend to other protections normally accorded employees.
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When the legislation was introduced in Congress in January 1944, some lawmakers argued that the unemployment insurance would encourage veterans not to work.
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Now a whole new universe of programs has been lumped together and primed for the chopping block: food stamps, Medicaid, even unemployment insurance.
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Instead of bailing out airlines or cruise lines, make people in quarantine eligible for unemployment insurance and waive work requirements for benefit programs.
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The maximum weekly amount varies by state, but the extra unemployment insurance will add up to a maximum of $600 more per week.
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Republicans said that the proposal they put forward is bipartisan, and already includes significant concessions on unemployment insurance and $75 billion for hospitals.
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Schumer and Senate Democrats are proposing at least a $750 billion package to expand paid family leave, paid sick leave and unemployment insurance.
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Now, Trump has signed into law the third legislative package responding to the coronavirus crisis, authorizing a big boost to unemployment insurance benefits.
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As Vox's Dylan Matthews reports, the unemployment insurance in the Senate deal would ensure that every recipient receives an additional $600 a week.
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The US Department of Labor registered nearly 3.3 million initial unemployment insurance claims last week, according to data newly reported on Thursday morning.
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Zandi's estimates put the multiplier for payroll tax cuts at 20.4 — not as good as unemployment insurance or food stamps, but not bad.
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Mr. Schumer said Republicans had agreed to extend unemployment insurance for an additional month at Democrats' insistence, for a total of four months.
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Among the provisions agreed to between Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were increased unemployment insurance and paid sick leave.
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Some state unemployment insurance programs have reduced the number of weeks workers can receive benefits since the last economic downturn in 2007-09.
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A passing vote would provide free coronavirus testing, paid emergency medical leave, extended unemployment insurance, food assistance and help for health care workers.
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The first designated money to health agencies and first responders, and the second funded emergency paid leave, free coronavirus testing and unemployment insurance.
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I think F.D.R. made it very clear when he established Social Security: He went after the banks, he created the unemployment insurance system.
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One component of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act will provide an estimated $213 billion to expand unemployment insurance benefits.
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The government can also help mitigate income loss by expanding eligibility for unemployment insurance, which currently covers fewer than half of all workers.
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It will boost funding to states, so they can expand their unemployment insurance benefits, and it guarantees free coronavirus testing for all Americans.
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In a statement, the Democratic leaders said that any stimulus package has to include paid sick leave and unemployment insurance, among other provisions.
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One idea is to beef up the government's automatic fiscal stabilisers, such as unemployment insurance, that guarantee bigger deficits if the economy stalls.
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They would effectively require many companies to treat independent contractors as employees, making the workers eligible for the minimum wage and unemployment insurance.
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" Derek Phillips, who began trading politics full-time a year and a half ago after leaving his marketing job, calls PredictIt "unemployment insurance.
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"I'm in favor of supplementing national systems for unemployment insurance with a reinsurance for the overall euro zone," Scholz said in the interview.
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They are not entitled to worker's rights such as a minimum wage, overtime pay, unemployment insurance and paid sick leave, among other benefits.
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People like drivers domestic workers whose employers don't file are going to lose everything and are not even currently eligible for unemployment insurance.
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Unlike independent contractors, employees have access to unemployment insurance if they lose their jobs and workers' compensation if they are injured at work.
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Its most recent thorough assessment, in 2013, found that recipients had lower incomes than similar people receiving unemployment insurance over its first four years.
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Up to now, the CFDT has said it will focus on other battles ahead such as reform of the pension and unemployment insurance systems.
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Municipalities manage unemployment insurance, providing little, if any, coverage for the 200m migrants who work in places where they are not registered to live.
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And because the US doesn't run unemployment insurance through the unions, like Scandinavian countries do, we see a much lower rate of union membership.
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The other was that unemployment insurance benefits, which had been repeatedly extended in response to the Great Recession, were once again scheduled to expire.
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He also proposed providing paid maternity leave by extending unemployment insurance benefits to those working mothers whose employers do not offer paid maternity leave.
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The government will soon unveil new rules for unemployment insurance which will, among other things, involve tapering payments and lowering payouts for higher earners.
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The governor also blamed Trump for the recent government shutdown and was quick to offer unemployment insurance benefits to Californians affected by the shutdown.
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It also would make other benefit changes while trying to replenish an unemployment insurance trust fund that owes $773 million to the federal government.
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After every cutback, every layoff, or every time he was let go, he dutifully signed up for unemployment insurance while he sought another job.
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However, this presents another opportunity – transitioning individuals from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), unemployment insurance, and other government programs, into our nation's workforce.
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About six months later, I terminated her because of poor performance but released her under circumstances that would allow her to collect unemployment insurance.
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While there is indeed bipartisan support for expanding access to paid leave, doing so as part of the unemployment insurance system makes little sense.
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They pay for workers' compensation insurance for people who are injured on the job, and unemployment insurance benefits for those who are laid off.
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WSJ's example: A fast-growing economy produces more revenue while reducing the need for spending on programs such as food stamps or unemployment insurance.
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He would guarantee six weeks, run through the existing unemployment insurance program, and he would pay for it by eliminating fraud in that system.
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"Day one is about stress, things like free testing, covering the uninsured, paid emergency leave, paid medical leave, strengthening unemployment insurance," el-Erian says.
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On Roosevelt's watch, workers gained the first national minimum wage, unemployment insurance and the right to form unions, strike and engage in collective bargaining.
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After the Great Recession, businesses lobbied, often successfully, to limit state taxes to increase state reserves for unemployment insurance, which the recession had depleted.
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Federal funding for these proposals will be important to bolster state unemployment insurance funds, as an analysis by Brookings Institution fellow Ryan Nunn details.
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Additionally, NCA asked for no-interest and low-interest loan assistance, expanded unemployment insurance to temporarily laid off employees, and suspended payroll tax collection.
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Passed with bipartisan support, the emergency measure strengthens existing unemployment insurance and food assistance programs, and will provide free diagnostic testing for the virus.
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Unemployment insurance has existed in its modern form since it was created in 100 as part of the same legislation that created Social Security.
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But broadly speaking, the way unemployment insurance works is that if you have a job, then you and your employer pay into a fund.
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Trump also signed a coronavirus relief bill, granting free coronavirus testing and expanding unemployment insurance and sick days for a number of American workers.
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Whenever the economy goes into recession, revenue from income and payroll taxes automatically falls, and spending on programs such as unemployment insurance automatically rises.
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The federal numbers released Thursday morning were already alarming: 281,000 people nationwide applied for unemployment insurance last week, up from 211,000 the previous week.
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The federal numbers released Thursday morning were already alarming: 281,000 people nationwide applied for unemployment insurance last week, up from 211,000 the previous week.
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But reports from unemployment insurance offices around the country indicated the real explosion in claims began this past weekend, and continued unabated this week.
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The Senate passed a stimulus package that would provide expanded unemployment insurance benefits and put a $1,200 check in nearly every US citizen's pocket.
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They petitioned and lobbied state legislatures and the federal government and secured inclusion in minimum wage laws in 1974 and unemployment insurance in 1976.
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It would also boost unemployment insurance, adding $600 per week for up to four months on top of what beneficiaries normally receive from states.
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The bill, which passed the Senate unanimously late last night, helps small businesses and unemployment insurance, "and that is a good thing," Cuomo said.
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The coronavirus bill that was signed into law and by the president it, the best thing in the bill is the unemployment insurance provision.
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It's crucial workers who've lost their jobs, or had their hours reduced, due to coronavirus file for unemployment insurance benefits as soon as possible.
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It includes direct payments to individuals, stronger unemployment insurance, loans and grants to businesses and more health-care resources for hospitals, states and municipalities.
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Economic View A pandemic requires a different kind of stimulus: The government needs to get money to consumers, bolster unemployment insurance and provide loans.
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Under the CARES Act, unemployment insurance benefits can last up to 39 weeks and will include a $600 boost over regular payments through July.
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Given the onset of COVID-19, the federal government has expanded unemployment insurance to cover more people through the Families First Coronavirus Response Act.
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Just look at today's jobless claims; new claims for unemployment insurance actually dropped by 3,000 last week to a near-historic low of 216,000.
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Automatic help for people who need it most can both help families make ends meet and speed economic recovery, just as unemployment insurance does.
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We need to ensure that existing portable benefits like Social Security, unemployment insurance, and worker's compensation apply to all who work for a living.
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Unemployment insurance generally provides just about one-third of a person's wages per week, capping out at about $333 on average, according to Shabo.
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The Trump administration's proposal originally focused only on birth mothers and would have been paid for through savings found in the unemployment insurance program.
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New claims for unemployment insurance fell again this week to its lowest level since 1973, further evidence that the U.S. labor market continues to strengthen.
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Many of these employers haven't had to pay independent contractors a minimum wage, overtime, health care benefits, and unemployment insurance until the law passed month.
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So if you find yourself stunned in the aftermath of an unexpected company restructuring exercise, there's good news: You are probably eligible for unemployment insurance.
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" The fund could be used to pay for "wage supplements, health care premiums, retirement benefits, extension of unemployment insurance benefits, and training or retraining programs.
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He said the conservatives would not lend Merkel support for a European unemployment insurance system nor for a euro tax to fund additional spending plans.
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Trump's plan would guarantee new mothers six weeks of paid maternity leave, funneled through the existing unemployment insurance system, supposedly paid for by eliminating fraud.
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He also defended a proposal to create a Europe-wide unemployment insurance system, saying it would make the euro zone more resilient to economic shocks.
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In particular, economic downturns increase future public debt by reducing revenues and increasing spending on need-based programs such as unemployment insurance and food assistance.
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The Commission suggested protection of public investment from economic downturns and an unemployment insurance scheme in cases of a sudden rise of the unemployment level.
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It would also spend another $300 billion over 10 years on anti-poverty programs ranging from eliminating cuts for food stamps to extending unemployment insurance.
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In Texas, 6,400 federal employees filed claims for unemployment insurance, according to the Texas Workforce Commission, and more than 600 had begun receiving benefit payments.
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Claims, which count the number of people who applied for unemployment insurance for the first time in the past week, rose by 20,2343 to 243,000.
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There's also a debate over whether to bolster the economic safety net by increasing loans and grants to small businesses or broadening out unemployment insurance.
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The legislation, which is intended to blunt the economic impacts of the coronavirus outbreak, includes provisions for paid sick or family leave and unemployment insurance.
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He said the president should be more generous on unemployment insurance, for example, and ignore advisers who are telling him to decrease it over time.
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Employers are obligated to contribute to a state unemployment insurance fund, but the companies' failure to do so does not disqualify workers from receiving benefits.
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The House passed a bipartisan bill on Saturday that granted paid sick leave to frontline workers, enhanced unemployment insurance, and allowed for nationwide free testing.
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The Senate on Wednesday passed a multibillion dollar emergency aid package to counter the economic slowdown that included $2 billion to state unemployment insurance programs.
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How can the minutiae of unemployment insurance compete for attention with movies describing the birth of Skynet, the diabolical neural network in the "Terminator" series?
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They also want to ensure unemployment insurance for people who lose their jobs due to the outbreak and expand food assistance to low-income families.
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They also want to ensure unemployment insurance for people who lose their jobs due to the outbreak and expand food assistance to low-income families.
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This system could operate through unemployment insurance and run for a temporary time to help keep down the administrative burdens of creating a new program.
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The Senate on Wednesday passed its $2 trillion coronavirus economic bailout bill, which included provisions that would make gig-economy workers eligible for unemployment insurance.
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The French taxes, known as social charges, can top 40 percent of paychecks and are used to cover health care, unemployment insurance and other services.
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Government data released on Thursday showed that claims for unemployment insurance in the United States remained low, near levels not seen since the early 1970s.
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The bill also includes significant unemployment insurance upgrades, extending benefits to four months from three months and raising the maximum payout by $600 per week.
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Workshare, which provides unemployment insurance for workers who lose hours but not their jobs, should be a big part of any future legislation as well.
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Under the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA), the federal government and state governments are required to work together to establish and administer unemployment insurance programs.
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It would also overhaul the unemployment insurance program, which hasn't changed since the New Deal, by giving states greater flexibility to help people find work.
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By doing so, the companies avoid complying with basic labor and social insurance protections, like minimum wage, overtime, Social Security, workers compensation and unemployment insurance.
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The budget also seeks to address a "loophole" that allows people to receive both unemployment insurance and disability insurance for the same period of joblessness.
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According to the bill, those exempt from receiving monthly payments are those already using Medi-Cal, County Medical Services Program, CalFresh, CalWorks or Unemployment Insurance.
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Last week, the cabinet pledged to prevent large-scale layoffs, telling local governments to help stabilise jobs by drawing on unemployment insurance and similar funds.
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About 5,000 workers at Michigan auto suppliers have filed for unemployment benefits as a result of the strike, the state's Unemployment Insurance Agency said Tuesday.
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The legislation passed by the Senate makes platform workers ineligible for unemployment insurance should they lose their job, or workers compensation if they are injured.
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Drivers lack health insurance, overtime pay, retirement benefits, unemployment insurance, workers' compensation and the right to join a union to collectively bargain on their behalf.
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"Employers shirk responsibility to safety net programs like workers' compensation and unemployment insurance," Newsom wrote in a Labor Day op-ed in The Sacramento Bee.
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But today the unemployment insurance program is in far worse shape than a decade ago, with many states gravely unprepared for the next inevitable downturn.
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As a result, the share of jobless workers receiving unemployment insurance has fallen by 25 percent since 2007, even though unemployment rates have been comparable.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS Legal Status (Midrange) UNEDIC is a private law association created in 1958 to provide unemployment insurance, which is a mandatory state responsibility.
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Should the social partners fail to reach an agreement, the State will extend the current convention or even take over the whole unemployment insurance system.
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These two elements are collectively estimated to cost 42.6 billion Danish kroner (about $6.27 billion), after factoring in the savings on the unemployment insurance system.
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These two elements are collectively estimated to cost 42.6 billion Danish kroner (about $6.27 billion), after factoring in the savings on the unemployment insurance system.
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Ride hailing and delivery services say the people who drive cars and deliver packages are contractors rather than employees, making them ineligible for unemployment insurance.
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The index, a closely followed barometer of economic health, has 10 components including manufacturer' new orders, stock prices, and average weekly initial claims for unemployment insurance.
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Meanwhile, the German Finance Ministry has proposed setting up a reinsurance fund for member countries' own unemployment insurance, topping them up if needed in a downturn.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The French government will in the coming days flesh out reform of professional training and unemployment insurance, Labour Minister Muriel Penicaud said on Friday.
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In the last two years alone, we've eliminated the corporate energy sales tax, lowered the corporate minimum tax and cut the unemployment insurance tax on businesses.
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Future fiscal stimulus could be baked in now by increasing the potency of "automatic stabilisers"—spending on unemployment insurance, say, which goes up as economies sag.
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A closely followed barometer of economic conditions, the LEI has 10 components including manufacturer' new orders, stock prices, and average weekly initial claims for unemployment insurance.
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A closely followed barometer of economic conditions, the LEI has 10 components including manufacturers' new orders, stock prices and average weekly initial claims for unemployment insurance.
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The cutbacks generally are intended to help shore up unemployment insurance trust funds, which went insolvent in 35 states following the recession that began in 2008.
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Staff at the state agency JobService ND who spent the past five years scrambling to help fill jobs now find themselves busy with unemployment insurance applications.
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Workplace and wage advocates argue some of these start-ups are evading payroll taxes, workers compensation and unemployment insurance payments, and minimum wage and overtime laws.
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The LEI, a closely followed barometer of economic health, has 10 components including manufacturers' new orders, stock prices, and average weekly initial claims for unemployment insurance.
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To improve its finances the government has cut spending on unemployment insurance (which had risen even when the jobless rate was falling) and on other benefits.
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Displaced workers and adversely affected local economies would be much better off with measures to enhance the safety net via better unemployment insurance and job training.
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Although we already have some automatic stabilizers in place, such as our tax system, the unemployment insurance system and other safety nets, they must be improved.
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Two generations ago, the Republican leadership accepted that President Franklin Roosevelt's Social Security program and unemployment insurance, which were initially fiercely resisted, were here to stay.
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Just like health or unemployment insurance, this small contribution is an investment in the social, economic, and physical well-being of our workforce and our families.
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Emergency systems like unemployment insurance spend too much time and money trying to find cheaters instead of helping people achieve their goals and find meaningful work.
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Unemployment compensation, where we, you know, plussed it up so that unemployment insurance will be equal to your wages, that will run through the unemployment system.
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But there was significant progress during Saturday's negotiations on boosting unemployment insurance payments, a major source of contention between GOP and Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill.
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Democrats also object to what they say is an insufficient amount of money for state and local governments and providing only three months of unemployment insurance.
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Financial markets are showing extreme distress; early reports of unemployment insurance claims suggest they are spiking in ways consistent with rapidly rising unemployment and job loss.
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The negotiators appeared to be cruising toward a deal on Friday and early Saturday after Republicans gave Democrats key concessions on hospital funding and unemployment insurance.
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Unemployment insurance claims spiked by a third between the first and second weeks of March, reaching 281,000, and portending a significant spike in the weeks ahead.
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The details of the expected $8503 billion-plus package are not totally clear, but it is expected to expand unemployment insurance and paid sick leave benefits.
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Unemployment insurance systems are run by state governments with a mix of state and federal money and governed by some federal rules with considerable state discretion.
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Ben Sasse (NE), Tim Scott (SC), and Rick Scott (FL) expressed concerns about the amount of money workers would be able to secure from unemployment insurance.
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"Once you have zero earnings in a prior week and you're not working this week, you're not employed by the definition of unemployment insurance," Stettner said.
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Employers pay the cost of unemployment insurance, usually through a 6 percent payroll tax, which can increase depending on how many employees a company lays off.
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The bill, known as "Phase 2," expands safety net programs including paid sick leave, unemployment insurance and food assistance to help Americans impacted by the coronavirus.
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The Labor Department reported 281,000 new claims for unemployment insurance last week, a 2150,23000 jump over the previous week that it attributed to the coronavirus epidemic.
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First, unemployment insurance should be made available to workers who experience not just job losses, but a significant reduction in pay of more than 60 percent.
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Late Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a package to provide some paid sick leave, free testing for Covid-19 and greater unemployment insurance benefits.
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It significantly boosts unemployment insurance, expanding eligibility and offering workers an additional $773 a week for four months, on top of what state unemployment programs pay.
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The weekly report of Americans who had filed for unemployment insurance was one of the first indicators of just how bad the coronavirus pandemic could be.
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It makes sense that lawmakers expanded eligibility for unemployment insurance to anyone impacted by the virus, as does their increasing of benefits by $600 per week.
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Democrats also secured an addition of $600 a week to all recipients of unemployment insurance, an amount that's roughly 1.5 times more than the average benefit.
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This latest bill is focused on providing more paid sick days to certain workers — and giving states a funding boost for unemployment insurance and food assistance.
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Eventually he got talked out of that by Democrats who argued that generous unemployment insurance benefits and flat cash transfers to households should be higher priorities.
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The broader coronavirus relief package also guarantees direct cash payments to many adult workers, expands unemployment insurance, and provides $367 billion in loans to small businesses.
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The measure would cover paid sick leave, expanded unemployment insurance, and food security assistance, according to The Post's Erica Werner, Mike DeBonis and Seung Min Kim.
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Many of those workers are new hires who have not worked at the Lear plant long enough to qualify for state unemployment insurance, Mr. Ballard said.
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The EITC is a "very large program that lifts more people out of poverty today than food stamps, unemployment insurance and housing vouchers combined," he added.
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The deal they struck was a partial victory for Democrats, raising top tax rates for families earning more than $450,000 and extending some unemployment insurance benefits.
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About 5,000 workers at Michigan auto suppliers have filed for unemployment benefits as a result of the strike, the state's Unemployment Insurance Agency said on Tuesday.
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The number of initial claims for unemployment insurance also reached an all-time low in January, though it spiked during the government shutdown and remains elevated.
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Democratic House Speaker Michael Busch stripped Lisanti of her position as chair of the Unemployment Insurance Subcommittee of the House Economic Matters Committee, the Post reports.
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A new report by the National Employment Law Project details some of the resulting damage inflicted on state unemployment insurance programs over the past six years.
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They are underpinned by the French Labour Code regulating Unedic's financial stability, and by support from the government through its approval of the unemployment insurance agreement.
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The convention defines the unemployment insurance financing mechanisms for the next three years with a legal obligation for a balanced budget under the French Labour Code.
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Today's unemployment insurance program won't provide an adequate financial backstop for many Americans, who could see broad variations in treatment depending on their state, experts said.
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Once a slowdown begins, tax revenues fall, automatic stabilizers such as unemployment insurance kick in, and the need for social services and short-term stimulus intensifies.
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Still, his line of credit will only extend to about $15,000, so he's looking into getting unemployment insurance or a part-time gig driving for Lyft.
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Issue No. 1 is that universal social insurance programs in the United States — Social Security, Medicare, unemployment insurance — every one of them is tied to work.
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Once you've been let go, the first thing you should do is sign up for unemployment insurance, which can give you up to 26 weeks of benefits.
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After the stock market crashed, in 213.6, she urged Roosevelt to set up a public-works program, unemployment insurance, and a workers'-compensation program—and he did.
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White-collar work was taking over from blue-collar work, and, during the Great Depression, the government had introduced programs such as Social Security and unemployment insurance.
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Now that three years have passed since her last training, Ms. Ward is again eligible to receive unemployment insurance while taking up to $4,000 worth of classes.
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Trump would pay for the policy by eliminating fraud and improper payments in unemployment insurance, a change that could potentially save more than $10.103 billion a year.
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For example, employer — paid unemployment insurance contributions, as well as the employer's half of Social Security and Medicare taxes, minimize taxpayer awareness of the cost of government.
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In California, a new law could require that workers be designated as employees, allowing them to gain access to basic protections like minimum wage and unemployment insurance.
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"New York state provides unemployment insurance benefits for striking workers when an employer hires permanent replacement workers," said Jesse Hurwitz, an economist at Barclays in New York.
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"When I bring back employees that are not being paid, that means they can't likely be collecting unemployment insurance or looking for a second job," he said.
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Our industrial employers and unions pioneered a national social compact in which employers provided health care, pensions and unemployment insurance to tie workers over during down times.
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The most common misconception among the public, Ms. Kosanovich said, is that the unemployment rate is determined solely by counting people who are receiving unemployment insurance benefits.
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Both require major administrative resources and funds but tend to be judged as lower priorities than getting unemployment insurance checks out the door and to recipients quickly.
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Gavin Newsom announced as part of his 2019 state budget that furloughed workers could receive unemployment insurance, and later said he would include essential workers as well.
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Tax experts on both the left and the right see rebate checks and expanding unemployment insurance as complimentary to each other and think both would be beneficial.
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More important, though, is the UI section: four months of unemployment insurance of at least $2100 per week to everyone put out of work due to coronavirus.
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The average amount an employer has to pay for an unemployment insurance claimant in the US is $277 per year, according to US Department of Labor data.
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The state's division of unemployment insurance said it was extending its call center hours, working to increase its network's bandwidth and asking claimants and employers to email.
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Things like extended unemployment insurance benefits, a payroll tax holiday, and unrestricted cash transfers to state governments could all be automatically triggered by an elevated unemployment rate.
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During the past 48 hours, unemployment insurance offices around the country were flooded with phone calls, and state unemployment websites crashed in Kentucky, Oregon, and New York.
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This was the automatic anti-recession device during each of the recessions that followed World War II: When unemployment rose, so did spending on unemployment insurance benefits.
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He also directed the department to find other methods of payment for workers who test positive but don't have access to sick leave, such as unemployment insurance.
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Another option available to states is to strengthen existing programs to further support people in a recession, such as unemployment insurance and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
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The minister also called for domestic measures ranging from cash transfers to subsidies for affected sectors and extending unemployment insurance, according to a statement of his comments.
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Qualifications for unemployment insurance vary by state, but experts say you should apply if your ability to earn an income has been impacted by this national crisis.
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Weekly unemployment-insurance claims are set to post a second straight record as the coronavirus outbreak tears deeper into the US economy, experts surveyed by Bloomberg said.
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California provides up to $450 per week for unemployment insurance, Newsom said, and the proposed Senate bill would add $600 per week for up to four months.
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The 880-page legislation includes direct payments to individuals, stronger unemployment insurance, loans and grants to businesses and more health care resources for hospitals, states and municipalities.
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President Donald Trump signed a $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill on Friday that includes one-time payments to individuals, reinforced unemployment insurance and additional health-care funding.
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A second bill, which passed the House and is awaiting Senate consideration, would expand spending on safety net programs, including unemployment insurance, health insurance and food stamps.
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Labor Department officials initially didn't think it would be technically possible to implement the Democratic proposals to funnel money to the states through their unemployment insurance systems.
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They appeared to be coalescing around the idea of a short-term bill focused on paid leave, enhanced unemployment insurance, food assistance and help for small businesses.
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The new GOP budget plan looks to cut disability spending somewhat by barring payments to those Americans on the program who are also receiving unemployment insurance benefits.
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Applications for unemployment insurance fell by 2023,000 last week, to 267,000, the 21625th straight week below 2900,220006 and longest stretch since 2202, the Labor Department said Thursday.
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The plan calls for a new benefit carved out of the unemployment insurance program; the administration would work with states to find ways to pay for it.
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Applications for unemployment insurance fell by 21625,2900 last week, to 220006,2202, the 2628th straight week below 28500,6900 and longest stretch since 2628, the Labor Department said Thursday.
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Both would be financed by spending cuts — the Trump plan suggests they would come from reforms to unemployment insurance — but the experts' plan would also tax workers.
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They've remained almost stagnant nearly the last 50 years, and unemployment insurance coverage has decreased while essential expenses, including housing and health-care costs, continue to rise.
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Much of that work will take place behind the scenes in California's regulatory agencies where unemployment insurance claims, workers compensation claims, and other individual tests are brought.
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Those "gig economy" workers don't enjoy many of the rights employees do, such as a minimum wage, overtime pay, workers' compensation, unemployment insurance and paid sick leave.
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Steve Gray, director of Michigan Law's Unemployment Insurance Clinic, pointed to a client who developed an allergy to a substance at the muffler shop where he worked.
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Today's workers can enjoy the flexibility and autonomy of contingent work while still enjoying the peace of mind afforded by benefits like health, disability and unemployment insurance.
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The paid leave would be provided through unemployment insurance programs at the state level, so each state would need to find a way to pay for it.
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The Kenyan government has little to offer in the way of health and unemployment insurance, and private sector insurance is only accessible to those who are well-off.
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The total debt burden for unemployment insurance would rise to 30.0 billion euros in 2016 from 25.8 billion in 2015, before increasing to 33.6 billion euros next year.
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That followed his decision to sign an open letter by a group of German dignitaries urging such European reforms as a common army and an unemployment-insurance fund.
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Tough negotiations lie ahead over plans to revamp unemployment insurance and job training, while trying to bring down public spending, which is among the highest in the world.
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These include the labour market remaining tight and China's capacity to boost domestic consumption and investment demand, with more than 560 billion yuan in its unemployment insurance fund.
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The "independent worker" would get some benefits, like contributions towards health-care costs and payroll taxes, but would not be entitled to the minimum wage or unemployment insurance.
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President Emmanuel Macron's government has already faced down street protests over labour reform and risks more industrial action over plans to reform the pension and unemployment insurance systems.
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The Labor Department reported Thursday that 196,000 people applied for unemployment insurance in the week ending April 6, the lowest level for initial jobless claims since October 1969.
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The Labor Department reported Thursday that 196,000 people applied for unemployment insurance in the week ending April 6, the lowest level for initial jobless claims since October 85033.
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In most states they would receive unemployment insurance for up 26 weeks at a level well below their former earnings; after that, their income would fall to zero.
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Creating a new paid leave program within the unemployment insurance system also would weaken its dual goals of helping the unemployed find new jobs and paying benefits correctly.
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Even if Trump managed to drastically reduce unemployment insurance fraud, something he's never mentioned a specific plan to do, he'd save a couple of billion at the most.
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" A Labor Department spokesperson told CNN in a statement that the department has worked to keep states and DC "informed of which Federal employees qualify for unemployment insurance.
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Ryanair had claimed that disputes involving Irish contracts could be heard only in Ireland, where benefits like unemployment insurance and social security were less favorable than in Belgium.
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"The legislation will include measures to boost paid family leave and unemployment insurance, ensure free coronavirus testing, and strengthen nutritional aid like food stamps," The Post team reports.
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It would be an excellent time for the federal government to use some combination of Medicare and unemployment insurance to pay for sick leave and Covid-19 testing.
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Unemployment insurance will also be temporarily expanded, increasing such payments by $600 a week for the next four months and covering gig-economy workers, freelancers, and furloughed employees.
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A provision in the Senate's coronavirus stimulus bill, under a section called Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, makes contractors, freelancers, and other self-employed workers finally eligible for unemployment insurance.
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Among the sticking points remaining are provisions for corporations getting federal assistance, including policy on stock buybacks and executive pay, as well as unemployment insurance and worker protections.
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Weekly unemployment insurance claims spiked to 281,000 in the second week of March, up 70,000 from the previous week, according to figures released Thursday by the Labor Department.
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The partisan disagreement over whether to provide direct economic assistance in the form of rebate checks or unemployment insurance was a major sticking point heading into the talks.
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Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, the US job market was on strong footing and initial unemployment insurance claims had been hovering between roughly 210,000 and 230,000 a week.
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This is far smaller than the share of those aided by food stamps, or by other government support like disability benefits, unemployment insurance, college grants and medical benefits.
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The key elements include: $274 billion set aside for direct payments to individuals and families, $2000 billion in small business loans and $212 billion in unemployment insurance benefits.
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He left room for conditions, suggesting at one point that the freeze might not to apply to those whose income up to $75,000 is replaced by unemployment insurance.
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It also gives employers an incentive to start requiring drug tests at work, since unemployment insurance costs are lower if workers are more likely to be denied benefits.
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If you're quarantined or have been furloughed — if you're not being paid but expect to return to your job eventually — you may be able to get unemployment insurance.
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If you're quarantined or have been furloughed — if you're not being paid but expect to return to your job eventually — you may be able to get unemployment insurance.
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When such companies are able to classify workers as contractors, they don't have to contribute to unemployment insurance or workers' compensation, or heed minimum-wage and overtime laws.
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The Senate on Monday is taking up a House-passed bill that would ensure paid sick or family leave, bolster unemployment insurance and guarantee testing for the coronavirus.
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The House also passed a second bill over the weekend to provide paid leave for some employees and strengthen unemployment insurance, and it now heads to the Senate.
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It would significantly boost unemployment insurance benefits, expanding eligibility and offering workers an additional $600 a week for four months, on top of what state unemployment programs pay.
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One key component of the latest federal stimulus package, the CARES Act, signed into law on March 27, temporarily extends unemployment insurance benefits and provides pandemic unemployment assistance.
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Unemployment-insurance claims skyrocketed to a record 3.3 million in the week ended March 21, giving economists a first look at how quickly containment measures pummeled the economy.
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"It's an amazing win, given that there is no unemployment insurance for freelancers," says Rafael Espinal, who recently took the helm of the Freelancers Union as executive director.
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The latest drop came as weekly unemployment insurance claims spiked to 2202,2628 between March 28500 and 6900, an increase of 2628,28503 from the 22020,000 reported the previous week.
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Weekly unemployment insurance claims spiked to 28503,22020 in the second week of March, up 70,000 from the previous week, according to figures released Thursday by the Labor Department.
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The bill would also extend a financial boost to hospitals and the healthcare system and provide four months of unemployment insurance to workers furloughed because of the coronavirus.
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Weekly claims for unemployment insurance rose to 2628,28500 between March 6900 and 2628, spiking 28503,22020 from the 211,000 applications for jobless benefits filed between March 1 and 7.
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The measures include extending unemployment insurance to those unable to work from home, delaying tax payments for small businesses and beefing up funding to municipalities amid the crisis.
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For New Yorkers who are laid off as a result of the coronavirus, Mr. Cuomo said the state would waive the seven-day waiting period for unemployment insurance.
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Most federal spending is nondiscretionary, meaning that it goes to entitlements (such as Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment insurance) and to pay the interest on the national debt.
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"The new instruments - a rainy-day fund, a budget line, instruments for economic stabilization or unemployment insurance that the United States has - would make sense economically," he said.
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Meanwhile, many tens of millions of loyal Republicans in struggling regions came to rely on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, unemployment insurance and disability benefits just to scrape by.
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There are an estimated 15,000 Uber Eats couriers across 13 cities in Japan—none of whom receive worker's compensation or unemployment insurance because of their status as contractors.
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Unemployment insurance is a pillar of the social safety net and a lifeline to workers who are laid off from their jobs through no fault of their own.
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"The consistent stretch of initial unemployment insurance claims below 300,000 demonstrates that the labor market is on a solid footing," said Gus Faucher, deputy chief economist with PNC.
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These programs became the universal taxpayer-funded services of Finland today, including public health care, public day care and education, paid parental leaves, unemployment insurance and the like.
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One step would be to change laws so that "automatic stabilizers" like unemployment insurance can expand automatically during downturns, essentially baking into the system some automatic fiscal stimulus.
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He said he wants to offer them some sort of compensation but that they may have to rely on the practice's unemployment insurance or help from the state.
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On Monday, Mulvaney said the benefit would be funded mostly through unemployment insurance programs in each state, which would put the burden of the cost on state governments.
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According to the CAP poll, more than 70 percent of people said they opposed cutting home heating assistance for low-income Americans, unemployment insurance, and affordable housing programs.
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The greatest potential for reform, however, lies in consolidating and reducing the distortions in the mass of other social-protection schemes—unemployment insurance, food stamps, welfare and so forth.
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He has exhausted his severance and his unemployment insurance will run out within weeks, forcing his family to cut back or eliminate frills such as dining out and vacations.
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That status means workers don't get the same rights as employees, such as a minimum wage, overtime, workers' compensation, unemployment insurance, paid sick leave or on-the-job expenses.
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The current package deal must include a calendar for the implementation of a Euro budget with a true European Unemployment Insurance with European rules, based on flex-security principles.
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On the other hand, the results exclude administrative data on some big transfer programmes including unemployment insurance, veteran's benefits and worker's compensation, which collectively spend over $200bn a year.
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Later in the decade, a huge financial crisis and deep recession reduced tax revenues, raised payments for things like unemployment insurance, and scared Congress into two separate stimulus bills.
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"It's a sharp difference from what we've done with Social Security and Medicare Part A and unemployment insurance," said Alan Viard, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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The government also began new programs, such as Social Security and unemployment insurance, that helped older Americans avoid dying in poverty and supported families with children through tough times.
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The president wanted 2019 to see an overhaul of pensions - unifying into one myriads of different pension systems including deficit-ridden ones at state-owned companies - and unemployment insurance.
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Paid leave, food assistance, affordable testing and treatment, and increased unemployment insurance are among the many accommodations Congress and the administration must immediately enact to assist the most vulnerable.
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But we should not neglect channels like Social Security and Unemployment Insurance that have long been a critical source of income security for workers, seniors and people with disabilities.
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Economists are anticipating that the report will show a massive increase in the number of people filing for unemployment insurance as the first wave of coronavirus-induced layoffs hit.
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Senate Republicans earlier tried to break the deadlock by delivering their latest concession to Democrats on one of the biggest remaining issues — $250 billion more for unemployment insurance payments.
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The memo, sent by Gay Gilbert, administrator of the Office of Unemployment Insurance, included a long list of exceptions to state reporting requirements in light of the coronavirus crisis.
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The Labor Department on Thursday reported 281,000 new claims for unemployment insurance last week, a one-third increase over the previous week, a jump it attributed to the pandemic.
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"Unemployment insurance is about more than just giving somebody a check when they're unemployed," said Michele Evermore, a senior policy analyst at the left-leaning National Employment Law Project.
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The Democratic leader instead is offering a plan to provide "unemployment insurance on steroids" while modifying federal programs so that workers won't have to be fired to collect benefits.
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While expansions of paid leave, unemployment insurance, and SNAP benefits are crucial, the check will help fill the gaps for Americans that may not quickly navigate different government options.
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But letting workers and businesses go into a kind of hibernation mode is something the unemployment insurance system isn't set up to do, but could handle with legislative changes.
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They worry that the amount of money guaranteed by the bill's expansion of unemployment insurance surpasses how much some workers make on a weekly basis at their current jobs.
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A spike in unemployment The massive boost in unemployment insurance, which is projected to cost about $250 billion, comes as the coronavirus pandemic wreaks havoc on the US economy.
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But plans to reform unemployment insurance were only unveiled in June after months of delay, and a well-flagged pension overhaul now looks unlikely to happen before next year.
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And that tax comes on top of already high payroll taxes that help the government pay for the health care system, social security and unemployment insurance, among other things.
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Republicans agreed to a significant expansion of jobless benefits insisted on by Democrats that would extend unemployment insurance by 13 weeks and include a three-month enhancement of benefits.
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One response might include targeted tax cuts or spending increases on safety net programs like unemployment insurance that kick in automatically to stabilize the economy when it is underperforming.
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What is notable about the Texas initiative, which would apply only to unemployment insurance, is that it emerged not from a democratically elected body but from an opaque bureaucracy.
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On Saturday, the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives passed legislation that would require some employers to provide paid sick leave and allocate funding for unemployment insurance and food assistance.
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A bill passed by the House on Monday would allow all Americans to receive free diagnostic testing for the virus, expand paid sick leave, and increase unemployment insurance benefits.
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The bill expands unemployment insurance by providing states with at least $1 billion to compensate for administrative costs and other contingencies arising as a result of the coronavirus response.
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The bill provides $85033 billion in emergency grants for processing and paying unemployment insurance benefits, with $500 million reserved for states that see a 10 percent spike in unemployment.
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Paul said Friday he planned to introduce his own proposed package that includes a 60-day payroll tax holiday and would change paid sick leave to expanded unemployment insurance.
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McConnell said the package would rush checks to help Americans pay bills during job layoffs related to the outbreak, expand unemployment insurance and deliver emergency loans to small businesses.
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McConnell said the package would rush checks to help Americans pay bills during job layoffs related to the outbreak, expand unemployment insurance and deliver emergency loans to small businesses.
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Extended unemployment insurance benefits, bail outs for small firms, some help for corporations and people at the lower level of the economy that are going to be hit hard.
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The 880-page legislation includes one-time direct payments to individuals, stronger unemployment insurance, loans and grants to businesses and more health-care resources for hospitals, states and municipalities.
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The bill — the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act — expands unemployment insurance, a program enacted in 1935 to provide temporary income support for workers who lose their jobs.
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In North Carolina, for example, only 10.5% of unemployed workers collect unemployment insurance benefits, the lowest share of any state, according to the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
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Democrats have, however, secured wins on several other key priorities, including an expansion and enhancement of unemployment insurance to the tune of at least $250 billion, the people said.
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Even indicators that usually serve as early-warning systems have yet to catch up: New claims for unemployment insurance actually fell last week and remain near a multidecade low.
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Step 5: Register onlineIf you're applying online, which is the easiest way to apply for unemployment insurance benefits, you will likely need to register online and create an account.
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But forcing requirements like minimum wage, overtime pay and unemployment insurance onto gig economy employers doesn't make sense in a situation where workers, not employers, are largely in control.
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Outlining a reform of unemployment insurance rights, Penicaud also said the government would not use executive decrees to bypass parliament, a move which should help defuse tensions with unions.
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It also said that ideas for deeper euro zone integration like a euro zone budget or an unemployment insurance scheme were economically not necessary in a stable monetary union.
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The IRS and state tax authorities tend to find out about illegal arrangements — and the back taxes owed — when household workers file for unemployment insurance between jobs, said Swope.
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Companies deploying robots could also be required to pay some kind of fee, just as employers that lay off workers must subsequently pay more into the unemployment insurance system.
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"We are experiencing an unprecedented increase in the volume of calls and web traffic for Unemployment Insurance claims," said the New York State Department of Labor in an advisory.
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But for the reasons underlying the new view of fiscal policy, I am very worried that we have inadequate automatic stabilizers, like unemployment insurance, to deal with future recessions.
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The audit office also uncovered dozens of violations in the disbursement of retirement funds and unemployment insurance, with several officials accused of "misappropriating" millions of yuan of state money.
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Penicaud, a former head of human resources at Danone, said she would also outline plans in the coming days for unemployment insurance after unions and employers agreed suggestions on Thursday.
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The lawsuit claims that UberEats delivery workers suffer "negative tax implications," and are deprived benefits such as a minimum wage, workers' compensation insurance, unemployment insurance, disability insurance, and social security.
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These included a resolution banning mining companies from dumping toxins in nearby streams, and a limit on when states could require drug testing for laid-off workers seeking unemployment insurance.
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Once a year, the government compares its nonfarm payrolls data, based on monthly surveys of a sample of employers, with a much more complete database of unemployment insurance tax records.
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Besides a fresh emphasis on greenery, three structural reforms stand out: reorganisation of the public sector, reform of unemployment insurance and welfare benefits, and rationalisation of the French pension system.
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"Our system continues to be focused on getting a permanent job, so you can access pensions and unemployment insurance," says Bruno Palier of Sciences-Po, a French political science school.
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Uber drivers, who are classified as independent contractors and not as employees, do not receive similar benefits such as parental leave, overtime, workers' compensation, unemployment insurance, or paid sick leave.
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Unemployment insurance is the next big hurdle on Macron's reform agenda after he eased labour laws in 2017 and scrapped France's wealth tax in a move intended to boost investment.
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For example, unemployment insurance is not a simple, straightforward, uniform federal program, but a hodgepodge of separate state programs financed partly by the federal government and partly by the states.
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Across the rest of the United States, the number of unemployment insurance claims fell by 125,000 over the same period, according to data from the U.S. Employment and Training Administration.
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But while Americans who earn too little don't pay income taxes, those who hold a job are still subject to payroll taxes, which support Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment insurance.
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The bill -- which would provide relief for workers displaced by the coronavirus, provide food assistance and bolster unemployment insurance benefits -- will pass the House no matter what position Trump takes.
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And – after living hand-to-mouth since the Great Recession, many workers simply cannot get by on the pittance they would receive from unemployment insurance, even with food aid (SNAP).
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But the coronavirus stimulus bill also provides for four months of additional unemployment insurance, up to an additional $600 per week, for everyone who qualifies for unemployment, including gig workers.
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And Biden backs other efforts to provide relief to hard-hit workers, including expanded unemployment insurance benefits, assistance for schools, and increased food relief for low-income families and children.
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Democrats are particularly interested in seeing a boost in funding to help states stem losses they've encountered and cover costs like the increased need for food assistance and unemployment insurance.
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That's why the Problem Solvers Caucus supports a significant expansion of unemployment insurance during the crisis, so we can get immediate, direct payments to all low-and-mid income Americans.
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Be sure to check them out to see if you may qualify -- a key component of this package is expanding eligibility for government programs (see: the unemployment insurance expansion/enhancement).
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The Conference Board's index of leading economic indicators ticked up in its most recent release, and weekly claims for unemployment insurance benefits have hovered near record lows in recent weeks.
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This chart shows exactly how small that number is in a historical context: There's also no sign of rampant fraud in the unemployment insurance program that might warrant stricter rules.
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Another idea would be for states to partly or completely replace their income taxes with payroll taxes paid by employers, similar to existing taxes for Social Security and unemployment insurance.
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The deal includes an increase in unemployment insurance, $130 billion earmarked for hospitals, $1,200 checks to many Americans and a $367 billion loan program for small businesses, among other provisions.
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The Democratic bill aims to ensure paid sick leave for all workers, expand unemployment insurance, guarantee free coronavirus testing and expand federal food assistance for low-income families and children.
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The House last week passed changes to the second economic stimulus package — which established paid sick leave for some workers and enhanced unemployment insurance, among other provisions — by unanimous consent.
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The number of people who filed claims for unemployment insurance in the US last week surged to an all-time high as the coronavirus pandemic spurred layoffs across the country.
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The measure, part of the bill unveiled Tuesday, would beef up the nation's unemployment insurance program, a state-administered program that provides temporary income support for out-of-work Americans.
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The unemployment insurance proposal has been by far the most significant hurdle to the talks, people involved say, with Democrats seeking to expand both the duration and size of benefits.
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That status means they are not guaranteed the same rights as employees, such as a minimum wage, overtime, workers' compensation, unemployment insurance, paid sick leave or on-the-job expenses.
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The first gave $8.3 billion to health agencies and first responders and the second, which Trump signed Wednesday, provided $85033 to emergency paid leave, free coronavirus testing and unemployment insurance.
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As Vox's Matt Yglesias has explained, the US Department of Labor announced there were a record number of unemployment insurance claims filed in the week ending March 193 — 219 million.
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First-time claims for unemployment insurance fell 28,000 to a seasonally adjusted 235,2023, just above the record low of 233,000 reached in late November, the the Labor Department said Thursday.
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This can address the problem of diminished income after re-employment (as opposed to making up part of lost income during a spell of unemployment, as in traditional unemployment insurance).
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It was a glum axiom among conservatives that once Americans were handed a new entitlement — Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, unemployment insurance — they were loath to part with it.
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These benchmark revisions, which align the monthly survey-based estimates with more definitive data from state unemployment insurance records, are made annually but were much larger than usual this year.
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Yet our public policies like unemployment insurance have changed little since the 28500s, and our workforce adjustment programs are fragmented, reactive, and inadequate, especially for mid-career and older workers.
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That status has meant workers aren't guaranteed the same rights as employees, such as a minimum wage, overtime, workers' compensation, unemployment insurance, paid sick leave or on-the-job expenses.
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A simple comparison between Sweden, where unions run unemployment insurance, and Norway, which abandoned this system, shows that in Sweden union membership rates kept growing for most of the 20th century.
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Usually, an individual can collect unemployment benefits for a maximum of 26 weeks (though, again, limits do vary by state), so unemployment insurance isn't meant to be a long-term solution.
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"However, there is also scope for action in terms of social security contributions, which are also of particular significance to low-income workers, especially with regard to unemployment insurance," they added.
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They're independent contractors, which nominally puts them in charge of their own employment, but in fact deprives them of benefits like health insurance, unemployment insurance, and matching deposits in retirement accounts.
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For decades, liberals have called for government action to correct the excesses of the free market: progressive taxation; public health insurance; unemployment insurance; Social Security; and health, safety, and environmental regulations.
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He said the conservatives would not lend Merkel and Scholz support for the creation of a Europe-wide unemployment insurance system nor for a euro tax to fund additional spending plans.
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Researchers at the University of Michigan set out the details in a paper in March that matched criminal histories to statewide wage- and jobs- data scraped from Michigan's unemployment insurance scheme.
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The signature element of the plan, six weeks of paid maternity leave for new mothers whose employers do not currently provide coverage, would be financed by eliminating fraud in unemployment insurance.
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The taxes that private equity paid, said the letter, leave out the costs incurred by governments to support unemployment insurance for those laid off in bankruptcies of private equity-backed companies.
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It would lead to significant hikes on job taxes, interfere with the core mission to help the unemployed, and increase all the billions of dollars misspent by the unemployment insurance system.
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In France, employers and unions jointly manage unemployment insurance with the government and they have been concerned that extending rights could drive up costs and require further contributions from other workers.
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Hourly GM workers will get supplemental unemployment insurance through the union, giving them time to figure out their next move, said Kristin Dziczek, vice president at the Center for Automotive Research.
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Mr. Trump's proposal would apply only to new mothers, and he said he would pay for it with savings from reducing unemployment insurance fraud, though it's unclear how that would work.
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Key elements from the original Democratic proposal, which was released publicly Wednesday night, are expected to be maintained, including expanded food assistance, extended unemployment insurance and free coverage for coronavirus testing.
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Democrats argue that one-off payments would not be enough to help many citizens weather the economic shocks from the crisis, and that a better approach would be strengthening unemployment insurance.
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A handful of Senate Republicans think the unemployment insurance provided in the coronavirus stimulus is too generous to laid-off workers — and they're now pushing an amendment that could cap it.
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Most food truck vendors are immigrants and people of color who aren't eligible for benefits like paid sick leave, unemployment insurance, or other safety nets, according to the Street Vendor Project.
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This is when we start seeing a strengthening of labor unions, a federal minimum wage, the establishment of Social Security and unemployment insurance, and increased taxes on the wealthy and corporations.
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State unemployment insurance programs rely on federal grants to pay for the administration of benefits, but those costs have been cut by 30 percent over the past two decades, he said.
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In recent weeks, the number of new unemployment insurance claims and the unemployment rate for blacks and Hispanics have been at or near their lowest levels in more than four decades.
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Pelosi has said there should be paid sick leave, enhanced unemployment insurance, protective equipment for health care and other frontline workers, affordable medical treatment, and free virus testing, among other proposals.
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The Democratic bill included provisions to ensure paid sick leave for all workers, expand unemployment insurance, guarantee free coronavirus testing and expand federal food assistance for low-income families and children.
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It expands unemployment insurance, extending paid sick leave for workers forced to stay home and providing food aid to low-income children who might otherwise go hungry due to school closures.
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The bill would also bolster unemployment insurance by providing states with at least $1 billion in grants to deal with a rise in joblessness resulting from the impact of the coronavirus.
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At the same time, Willkie criticized big business's shortcomings and supported a number of New Deal reforms, including a minimum wage, a limit on workers' hours, unemployment insurance and collective bargaining.
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The legislation, which now heads to the House, includes direct payments to individuals, stronger unemployment insurance, loans and grants to businesses and more health-care resources for hospitals, states and municipalities.
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In virtually every aspect of post-coronavirus recovery — from the cost of healthcare to small-business support, from unemployment insurance to debt relief — the Trump budget would quantifiably make things worse.
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The United States could consider a federal program that gives business interruption insurance to small businesses, drawing lessons from such programs as our terrorism risk and insurance program or unemployment insurance.
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Production is slowed, for example, and it will need to pay partial unemployment insurance for the thousands of employees at the Douai site who were not able to work on Monday.
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Classifying drivers as employees would cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars a year by forcing it to provide benefits like minimum wage guarantees, overtime, unemployment insurance, and workers' compensation.
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Meanwhile, as systems become less accessible for workers with language and literacy barriers and those with limited internet access, the percentage of jobless workers applying for unemployment insurance is dropping dramatically.
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He has called for all women to receive six weeks of paid maternity leave through the unemployment insurance system, as well as tax breaks aimed at making child care more affordable.
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"We need to be cognizant and responsive to our customers' needs," said Jeff Fitzgerald, who oversees the unemployment insurance program in Colorado, which has so far received about 2,200 federal claims.
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Independent contractors and the self-employed, typically not eligible for unemployment insurance, will be temporarily eligible for special "Pandemic Unemployment Assistance"; the federal government will take on a greater share of states' unemployment payments; "work-sharing" programs where unemployment insurance pays companies to reduce workers' hours rather than lay them off are expanded; and unemployment checks are increased by $600 a week across the board, a huge spike given the median weekly pay in the US is $936.
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"The welfare systems, such as unemployment insurance, continue to operate, but eventually it will be exhausted," said Miguel Foguel, a labor market expert at economic think tank IPEA, in Rio de Janeiro.
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His government has repeatedly shrugged off poor poll ratings, insisting it will not waver on the reform agenda as politically sensitive overhauls of unemployment insurance and pensions loom in the months ahead.
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"We should make sure that if folks lose their job, that the system works for them," he said, arguing that laid-off workers should receive retraining assistance in addition to unemployment insurance.
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Obama will seek to expand unemployment insurance to more types of workers, provide wage insurance for workers moving to lower-paid positions, and provide incentives to states for retraining or relocating workers.
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More economic and social reforms are on his pro-business government's agenda, including changes to unemployment insurance aimed at encouraging workers to take on new jobs, as well as a pension reform.
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Merkel's conservatives and their Social Democrat (SPD) junior coalition partners in August agreed to reduce paycheck contributions toward the unemployment insurance system by 0.5 percentage point to 2.5 percent starting in 2019.
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Mr Autor and his colleagues found that in areas affected by trade with China, new spending on disability benefits was more than double new spending on unemployment insurance and TAA (see chart).
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"Policy makers operated on the assumption that the primary function of unemployment insurance was to replace the wages of male breadwinners, who were understood to earn a 'family wage,' " Professor Mettler writes.
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A key element of that agenda should be the introduction of a financial transaction tax dedicated to payments for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, unemployment insurance and other forms of public assistance.
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"Should any political party attempt to abolish Social Security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history," he said.
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"Workers who are out of work should have access to earned [unemployment] benefits," National Employment Law Project policy analyst Michelle Evermore says, adding that workers pay into unemployment insurance throughout their careers.
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For these areas, we need to strengthen supports for displaced workers through retraining, job search, reemployment services, and a modernized unemployment insurance system to help them transition to new jobs and careers.
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A top House Democrat is calling on Michigan's governor to review all instances where the state's automated computer system mistakenly detected thousands of cases of unfounded fraud in unemployment insurance claims. Rep.
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Red-hot labor market: Another sign is data showing initial applications for unemployment insurance falling again this week, and the four-week average of new claims is at its lowest since 1973.
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"We asked the economists what really can stimulate the economy fast, and there were things like food stamps — because people would spend that fast — unemployment insurance, refundable tax credits," Ms. Pelosi said.
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But Republican leaders also brought in Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia to counter the Democratic call for using the existing state-based unemployment insurance system to dole out money to those in need.
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Many states, like Texas and Pennsylvania, have already done this, and the recently passed Emergency Unemployment Insurance Stabilization and Access Act of 2020 has provisions that encourage other states to do similarly.
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The proposal would guarantee free testing for the virus, expand unemployment insurance, extend paid sick leave and provide meals to low-income children who might otherwise go hungry due to school closures.
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But $250 billion has been set aside for direct payments to individuals and families, while $350 billion will be used for small business loans and $250 billion will fund unemployment insurance benefits.
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In 2018, New York's unemployment insurance appeal board, its highest executive branch authority on such questions, ruled that three Uber drivers were eligible for unemployment benefits, along with all "similarly situated" drivers.
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In San Francisco, legislators are pushing for more gig worker protections while the House of Representatives is currently reviewing the $2 trillion stimulus package that would provide gig workers with unemployment insurance.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren – until Thursday herself running for the White House – has proposed a $17.83 billion plan for low-interest government loans to help businesses and expand unemployment insurance, among other benefits.
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The House is expected to vote on Thursday on legislation that would expand unemployment insurance for those affected ty the disease and extend paid sick leave to those who must stay home.
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The measures floated by [Nancy] Pelosi and other leaders included an expansion of unemployment insurance, food stamps and other public assistance programs as well as allowing for more sick and family leave.
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On Wednesday, the Senate sent Trump a second, $28503 billion package — originating in the Democrat-controlled House — for more testing, unemployment insurance and paid sick leave for workers impacted by the virus.
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The bill includes language that would ensure that workers can take paid sick or family leave, increase unemployment insurance, and guarantee that all Americans can get free diagnostic testing for the coronavirus.
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The package features an expansion of unemployment insurance and an extension of paid leave and food security provisions to help low-income children who might otherwise miss meals due to school closures.
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Workers in the gig economy — contractors who drive for Uber and Lyft, for example — aren't currently eligible to collect unemployment benefits since their employers don't pay the taxes that fund unemployment insurance.
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It offers an additional $600 a week in unemployment insurance, bringing weekly payouts to the $800- to $900-a-week range when state benefits are added, to workers including the self-employed.
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Beyond paid sick days and paid leave, you can apply for unemployment insurance if you need to care for a child whose school is closed, and you've exhausted other options for care.
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The GOP senator announced on Friday that he would introduce his own coronavirus bill that includes a 60-day payroll tax holiday and would replace paid sick leave with expanded unemployment insurance.
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The bill requires many contract workers to be treated as regular employees, which would mean that they would be covered by minimum wage, overtime, unemployment insurance and other protections afforded traditional employees.
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Trump has promised that his maternity leave program will not increase taxes; rather, leave will be funded by savings resulting from eliminating waste and fraud in the government's Unemployment Insurance (UI) program.
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Details of state unemployment insurance programs vary; generally, the government provides benefits to eligible workers who have lost a job "through no fault of their own," for a maximum of 26 weeks.
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He also points out that large parts of the so-called Obama stimulus were the result of automatic government spending, like unemployment insurance, that would have happened no matter who was president.
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Improvements in initial claims for unemployment insurance, building permits, and financial indicators were the primary drivers, said Ataman Ozyildirim, director of business cycles and growth research at The Conference Board, a trade group.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's government and labor unions, united in seeking to cut unemployment but divided over how to do so, will seek common ground with a revamp of job training and unemployment insurance.
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Unfortunately, many states have cut back on unemployment insurance eligibility and benefits over the years, and reduced eligibility for Medicaid, the federal and state program that helps low-income Americans with medical costs.
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The benefit would apply only when employers do not offer paid maternity leave, and would be paid for by offsetting reductions in the federal unemployment insurance program so that taxes are not raised.
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Workers in China's vast gig economy—driving cars for hire, delivering food or trucking packages between cities—rarely get overtime pay or unemployment insurance, says Geoffrey Crothall of China Labour Bulletin, an NGO.
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Spending on "social protection", such as pensions, unemployment insurance and assistance for the hard-up, has risen from an average of about 5% of GDP in rich countries in 1960 to 20% today.
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Under Trump's five-part plan, the federal government would guarantee at least six weeks of paid maternity leave without raising taxes; it would be paid for by changes to state unemployment insurance programs.
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Protesters also want to derail Macron's plans to raise a special tax used to finance welfare which hits pensioners particularly hard, overhaul unemployment insurance and shake up the highly indebted state railway company.
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Busch issued a statement Tuesday expressing "extreme disappointment and concern" over Lisanti's "irresponsible and hurtful actions," adding that she would no longer chair the Unemployment Insurance Subcommittee of the House Economic Matters committee.
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President Trump's proposal, found in his 2018 budget proposal, would guarantee six weeks of paid leave to parents who give birth or adopt a child, funded through the Labor Department's unemployment-insurance program.
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We could also improve our unemployment insurance system, which eight states, including big ones like Florida, Michigan and North Carolina, have undermined by restricting eligibility or cutting benefits, or both, in recent years.
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French households squirreled away cash, instead of spending money resulting from a surge in extra income at the end of last year, boosted by the scrapping of a payroll tax for unemployment insurance.
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The G.I. Bill gave veterans low-interest loans to buy a home, farm or business; 52 weeks of unemployment insurance; job placement services; and up to four years of federal aid for learning.
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Economists will also be watching weekly claims for unemployment insurance to see if layoffs are picking up and monthly retail sales data for signs that consumers are deferring restaurant meals or other spending.
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President Donald Trump signed a $100 billion coronavirus relief package into law Wednesday, which will provide free COVID-19 testing and expand paid leave and unemployment insurance to Americans impacted by the pandemic.
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It is therefore urgently necessary that we provide financial support to those hurt by the coming recession, and unemployment insurance is one of the best ways of doing so in a targeted way.
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House Democrats are eager to pass a package that includes things like sick leave, free coronavirus testing, and expands benefits like federal unemployment insurance, as Vox's Ella Nilsen and Li Zhou have reported.
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So make the case: Why should we just give people money as opposed to just the things we've done before, like expand existing programs like unemployment insurance and SNAP [the food stamp program]?
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In a separate letter sent to U.S. congressional leaders, the California governor asked for additional federal funding for unemployment insurance and social safety net programs and aid to small businesses, schools and universities.
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Braun, a former small business owner, says it's better to beef up unemployment insurance benefits, but other Republicans are pushing for pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into direct assistance for small businesses.
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The court ruling applied mainly to minimum wage and overtime laws, while the legislation, Assembly Bill 5, would apply to all aspects of employment, including unemployment insurance, workers' compensation and paid sick days.
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It's also possible that jobless claims could go up once the government's stimulus bill passes, depending on the details about boosting unemployment insurance, said Joe Song, the US economist at Bank of America.
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Increase in unemployment insurance ($260 billion): "The federal government would provide an additional $600 on top of existing unemployment benefits, which are currently an average of $0003, for four months," our colleague writes.
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The government will return more unemployment insurance premiums to job-saving firms and subsidise small firms to hire college graduates with employment contracts longer than a year, the cabinet said in a statement.
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The plan, which includes one-time payments to individuals, strengthened unemployment insurance, additional health-care funding and loans and grants to businesses to deter layoffs, got through the Senate unanimously on Wednesday night.
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The plan, which includes one-time payments to individuals, strengthened unemployment insurance, additional health-care funding and loans and grants to businesses to deter layoffs, got through the Senate unanimously on Wednesday night.
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The way the bill is set to be structured, the combination of the unemployment insurance piece and the direct payments piece are closely intertwined, with both still open for negotiators to work through.
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The sharp rise in claims for unemployment insurance comes as businesses in the entertainment, restaurant and bar, travel, retail, and hospitality industries face mandatory closures across the U.S. as the coronavirus pandemic escalates.
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" He said "there are some technical challenges with the unemployment insurance system" and said GOP negotiators are "working very hard" to make sure "the assistance we deliver goes out as quickly as possible.
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The House bill removes restrictions on paid sick and family leave that were in an earlier coronavirus package signed into law, expands unemployment insurance and includes strict conditions for corporations receiving federal bailouts.
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The unemployment insurance system, for example, generally requires people to be actively searching for work to receive benefits, something that could be difficult if they are quarantined or are avoiding in-person interactions.
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If the unemployment rate should go up, and right now, it's still 3.5%, 50 or lower, but if it does go up, unemployment insurance, food stamps, various welfare related programs, those are automatic.
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The main problem, she said, is the social charges, meaning the taxes on top of the salary that employers must pay to ensure employees are covered for health care, retirement and unemployment insurance.
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Ms. Sneed closed it nine years later, believing that a state requirement that nonprofit arts groups make unemployment insurance payments for all independently contracted musicians would have put the organization out of business.
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Consumption will decline; employment will fall; and state governments, which rely on sales and income taxes, will face decreasing revenues, paired with a surging demand for programs such as unemployment insurance and Medicaid.
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In most states, termination for misconduct makes the perpetrator ineligible for unemployment insurance benefits — a higher ethical standard than WeWork's top investors seemed to hold Neumann to when he got his golden parachute.
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The move, which would allow drivers to seek basic protections like minimum wage and unemployment insurance, has implications for all tech platforms that rely heavily on contract workforces — which is most of them.
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Indeed, what's happened instead is that in these communities, people end up tapping into benefits set up to support economically struggling families — unemployment insurance, disability benefits, income support, and medical benefits like Medicaid.
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David Autor, David Dorn and Gordon Hanson, three economists, have estimated that of the extra government payments associated with Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007, only 6% came through TAA or unemployment insurance.
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Roles for Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner come into focus He also called for guaranteeing six weeks' maternity leave by extending unemployment insurance benefits to working mothers whose employers do not offer paid maternity leave.
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That number implies that if the US could turn unemployment insurance over to unions, they could see membership triple from barely 10 percent to 30 percent, a change that would dramatically transform American politics.
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He thinks that Mexico also needs to replace restrictions on firing with unemployment insurance and shift the tax burden away from payrolls, abolish tax perks for small firms and take contract enforcement more seriously.
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Check Out Your State's Laws Unemployment insurance benefits vary by state, and each state has its own method of determining the benefit amount and how long an individual can access funds within federal guidelines.
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BEIJING, April 30 (Reuters) - China's state council said on Tuesday it will utilise 100 billion yuan ($14.9 billion) from the country's unemployment insurance fund as part of its efforts to achieve "relatively full employment".
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Because they depress labor supply, programs like unemployment insurance, basic incomes (like the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend), and disability insurance cost the government more than $1 per $1 of benefits they provide to recipients.
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For the single currency to continue to be economically and politically sustainable, the euro area needs a budget that could support investment in downturns and facilitate limited, temporary transfers via an unemployment-insurance scheme.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China will utilize 100 billion yuan ($14.9 billion) from its unemployment insurance fund as part of its efforts to support a vocational training scheme and stabilize employment, the cabinet said on Tuesday.
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The sweeping fiscal policies enacted by Congress included an enhanced federal share of Medicaid spending, direct payments to individuals and updates to the unemployment insurance system, including bonus payments and repeated extensions of benefits.
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The number of people claiming unemployment insurance in Texas, Oklahoma and North Dakota at the end of January 2016 had risen by almost 42,000 compared with a year earlier, an increase of 25 percent.
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He said that reforms to overhaul France's unemployment insurance and professional training systems, which will be discussed in the next few weeks, would help the most in need while encouraging social mobility and merit.
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Of course, that does happen, which is why unemployment insurance exists in the first place, but there are lots of people who lose their jobs and then can't find similar work at similar pay.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer continues to negotiate with the Trump administration as he tries to iron out disagreements, including oversight of Treasury Department relief to businesses and how much to strengthen unemployment insurance.
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Many Democrats, as well as some Republicans, would prefer to expand unemployment insurance instead of issuing checks, arguing that a one-time infusion of cash isn't enough for people who have lost their jobs.
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Negotiators at one point had agreed to a tentative deal to provide $2628 billion in rebate checks — $28500,6900 for every adult and $2628 for each child — matched by $28503 billion in expanded unemployment insurance.
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The plan would vastly ramp up "extended benefits," the long-neglected part of the UI system mentioned above that is already part of the unemployment insurance law, and adds emergency money during large downturns.
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Democrats have expressed strong opposition to a payroll tax cut, but they haven't ruled it out if it's included in a broader package with some of their top priorities, such as expanded unemployment insurance.
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Beshear has also waived co-pays and deductibles for coronavirus tests, and has loosened the state's rules for unemployment insurance so that those laid off amid the economic fallout of the virus quickly qualify.
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On the policy side, we need to equalize access to a good education, increase training and apprenticeships, raise wages or provide wage subsidies, and expand unemployment insurance and other parts of our safety net.
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These workers would suddenly get labor protections and benefits that all employees get, such as unemployment insurance, health care subsidies, paid parental leave, overtime pay, workers' compensation, and a guaranteed $25 minimum hourly wage.
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Ms. Caviedes, 42, a furloughed bilingual loan processor in the Agriculture Department's rural development program, spent the week visiting her church's food pantry, applying for unemployment insurance and job hunting at Walmart and Walgreens.
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The Democrats' bill would expand paid sick leave, unemployment insurance, funding for child nutrition, and other food programs, and introduce other sweeping steps to address economic hardships that the outbreak could wreak on Americans.
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It does so by expanding unemployment insurance, extending paid sick leave for workers forced to stay home and providing food aid to low-income kids who might otherwise go hungry due to school closures.
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The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment insurance fell last week for a second straight week, an indication that the coronavirus had not yet hit the labor market in a major way.
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Before leaving town Thursday, the House is expected to vote Thursday on a package of Democratic proposals to help Americans impacted by the coronavirus outbreak, including paid sick leave and unemployment insurance, Hoyer said.
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He added that for some states' initial-unemployment-insurance offices, "there's probably a literal limit in terms of bandwidth of how much they can process," which could push claims to be reported next week.
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That message is intended not only for the Senate, where the bill had stalled Wednesday evening as lawmakers fought over an expansion of unemployment insurance, but also for the members of her own caucus.
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It's one reason why I was relieved to see Congress take action on unemployment insurance — providing states with the resources to expand and strengthen the money available to those whose livelihoods have been taken.
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The first $8.3 billion law focused on health agencies and first responders, while the second, which Trump signed Wednesday, put roughly $104 billion toward emergency paid leave, free coronavirus testing and expanded unemployment insurance.
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They said they would pursue legislation that provided free coronavirus testing for all Americans, paid leave for those affected by the epidemic, expanded food subsidies and an expansion of the federal unemployment insurance program.
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Under the bill, anyone deemed to be an employee under the test would be entitled to protections like unemployment insurance, workers' compensation and paid sick leave, not just a minimum wage and overtime pay.
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" And a decision against Uber in an unemployment insurance case in New York said the idea that Uber was not a transportation company but simply provides leads for drivers is a "non sequiter [sic].
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Many, experts say, are participants in the so-called gig economy, where companies employ nonpermanent workers and don't have to contribute to unemployment insurance or workers' compensation, or heed minimum-wage and overtime laws.
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Ms. Trump and her aides said in the meeting Monday that they were not committed to financing it through unemployment insurance reform and were open to other methods, according to the experts who attended.
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We know from some timely indicators, such as initial claims for unemployment insurance, that the hurricane severely disrupted the labor market in the affected areas, and payroll employment may be substantially affected in September.
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Unemployment Insurance is a federal-state program, which means that states could decide to opt out of the paid leave program that Trump has proposed, which would lead to uneven coverage across the country.
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Macron launched an overhaul of France's strict labor laws and scrapped its wealth tax during his first year in office, but planned reforms of corporate law, unemployment insurance and pensions are falling behind schedule.
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Michael E. Busch, the Democratic speaker of the state's House of Delegates, said in a statement on Tuesday that Ms. Lisanti had been stripped of her position as chairwoman of the Unemployment Insurance Subcommittee.
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ET. Earlier in the day, the Department of Labor reported that the number of first-time filings for unemployment insurance fell to 249,000 last week, compared to economists' expectations that claims climbed to 256,000.
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The term itself was coined in 1975 by a group of women at Cornell University, in support of a former colleague who sued for unemployment insurance after she quit her job over inappropriate touching.
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Spain's proposals, which also include a common euro zone unemployment insurance scheme, were submitted to the European Commission in February but came to light this week and were released by the economy ministry on Tuesday.
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Say a hardworking American loses his job, we shouldn't just make sure he can get unemployment insurance; we should make sure that program encourages him to retrain for a business that's ready to hire him.
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You need a "job-seekers allowance" much greater than a UBI to fund your training and employment search, as the Center for American Progress has proposed as part of a plan to expand unemployment insurance.
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Trump says he would pay for his plan -- six weeks of partially paid maternity leave for mothers only (he doesn't offer any paid leave for fathers) -- by eliminating the fraud in the unemployment insurance system.
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It approved 10 billion euros a year of tax relief for families in June and on Tuesday agreed measures to stabilize the level of retirement pensions and reduce workers' contributions to the unemployment insurance system.
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"The interest rate spread and average weekly hours were the main drivers of October's improvement, helping to offset some of the weaknesses in claims for unemployment insurance and new orders," Ozyildirim said in a statement.
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Say a hardworking American loses his job — we shouldn't just make sure he can get unemployment insurance; we should make sure that program encourages him to retrain for a business that's ready to hire him.
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Rick Snyder to insist on a full probe of the claims of fraud made by the state's Unemployment Insurance Agency's (UIA) system and to fully reimburse those who were financially harmed by any inaccurate decisions.
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Weekly national jobless claims hit their lowest level since 1969 earlier this month, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, which reported that 196,000 people applied for unemployment insurance in the first week of April.
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The package, sealed during talks that lasted more than six hours, also includes lower contributions to the public unemployment insurance scheme and the creation of an investment fund to support local high-tech start-ups.
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"They say we can get unemployment insurance of $6003,200, but we have to enroll within five weeks, and we need our credencial de elector"—an official identification card—"and a proof of residence," Lopez says.
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The basic idea is that you would get 50 percent of the difference between your old salary and your new salary in the form of a check coming out of your state's unemployment insurance program.
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The White House supported GOP action to remove the rule, claiming it imposed an arbitrarily narrow definition of occupations and constrains a state's ability to conduct a drug testing program in its unemployment insurance system.
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An individual employer's payment rate for state unemployment insurance is typically tied to how many workers the employer lays off, much like a motorist who sees his or her insurance go up after an accident.
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"They don't need $1,000, they need a sustainable income -- either through loans from their employers to keep the payroll coming or get on unemployment insurance or something like it so they'll have income," Graham said.
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"We're focusing on what are the things that we can do in order to get unemployment insurance benefits into the hands of those who are affected more quickly," said Gail Krumenauer, the agency's communications manager.
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Thanks to unemployment insurance, if your employer goes under you have a cushion while you go find another job — but the program is deliberately stingy to make sure you go out and get another one.
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Alan Blinder at Princeton has echoed the idea of making SNAP benefits temporarily higher, and further suggested automatically increasing unemployment insurance payments during recessions (which Zandi's analysis suggests is nearly as stimulative as food stamps).
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Democratic lawmakers and aides say the House plan could include expanded Medicaid coverage, additional unemployment insurance payments, relief for homeowners and renters, support for small businesses, an airline rescue package and additional food security measures.
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House Democrats are moving ahead with their own economic package that includes paid sick leave for certain workers, extra funding for children's school lunches, expanded unemployment insurance, and increased spending on social safety-net programs.
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House Democrats are moving forward with their own economic package that proposes paid sick leave for certain workers, increased funding for children's school lunches, expanded unemployment insurance and greater spending on social safety-net programs.
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He also proposed guaranteed unemployment insurance for anyone who loses their job through no fault of their own — a concept that appeared more aggressive than Biden's pitch to relax the current rules around unemployment benefits.
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Chances for a planned Senate vote Wednesday on a historic $2 trillion relief package in response to the coronavirus pandemic appeared to dwindle as senators threatened to delay it over a key unemployment insurance proposal.
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The Senate stimulus bill, the largest economic rescue package in U.S. history, includes direct payments to individuals, stronger unemployment insurance, loans and grants to businesses and more health-care resources for hospitals, states and municipalities.
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America is relying too heavily on unemployment insurance for laid-off workers, they argue in an NYT Op-Ed, rather than government funding for companies to help them keep employees on payrolls, as in Europe.
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Senators appeared close to an agreement on matching the amount of money deployed through direct assistance with the same amount to expand unemployment insurance -- a number set at roughly $250 billion each, the people said.
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Unemployment insurance is a program that's jointly run by the state and federal government, so while the application procedure can vary by state, the overall process and eligibility requirements are more or less the same.
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"While expansions of paid leave, unemployment insurance, and SNAP benefits are crucial, the check will help fill the gaps for Americans that may not quickly navigate different government options," Romney argued in a press release.
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In 2012 he published a book arguing that the expansion of social safety net programs such as food stamps and unemployment insurance following the great recession reduced the incentive to work, thereby prolonging the downturn.
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The document proposes requiring unemployment insurance recipients to spend eight hours taking an online course for how to search for jobs, write resumes and prepare for interviews, with the express purpose of cutting public costs.
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Say a hardworking American loses his job—we shouldn't just make sure he can get unemployment insurance; we should make sure that program encourages him to retrain for a business that's ready to hire him.
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Say a hardworking American loses his job — we shouldn't just make sure he can get unemployment insurance; we should make sure that program encourages him to retrain for a business that's ready to hire him.
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A package that involves no joint liability on bonds and sovereign insolvency should be sufficiently reassuring towards the "North"; in exchange, the "South" should demand a treasury, a European Unemployment insurance scheme, and single deposit insurance.
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That includes a ramp up in spending in 2009 and 2010 from a controversial fiscal stimulus package and automatic stabilizers — increased government payments for unemployment insurance and other government programs to help during tough economic times.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and their Social Democrat (SPD) junior coalition partners agreed on Tuesday to reduce paycheck contributions toward the country's unemployment insurance system, sharing a slice of bountiful revenues with taxpayers.
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First, the hukou system of household registration means that some 270m migrant workers who have gone to cities for jobs do not enjoy a permanent right to live in them, let alone collect unemployment insurance there.
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"We don't want this to become an attack on joint management because we think we have shown we can manage unemployment insurance," said Michel Beaugas, head of labor policy at Force Ouvriere, France's third largest union.
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Again, fiscal conservatives have ruled out what common economic sense calls for, namely an unemployment insurance scheme or a deposit insurance mechanism, the latter which would instill confidence in deposits across Europe and prevent bank runs.
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Economic affairs and social affairsVon der Leyen has previously spoken out in favor of European unemployment insurance and a Europe-wide minimum wage, ideas that may have been tactics to secure votes from the social democrats.
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Today, flanked by activists and community leaders, he and Muslet often go door to door, helping people sign up for unemployment insurance, food stamps, and other public benefits without the hassle of calling on multiple bureaucracies.
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In a nod to some European countries like fiscally conservative Germany, she said governments should not fuss over spending caps while letting programs like unemployment insurance do their job of softening the blow from the downturn.
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In a nod to some European countries like fiscally conservative Germany, she said governments should not fuss over spending caps while letting programmes like unemployment insurance do their job of softening the blow from the downturn.
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Chuck GrassleyCharles (Chuck) Ernest GrassleyChances for drug pricing, surprise billing action fade until November Stimulus talks to miss McConnell's Monday deadline Democrats fume over GOP coronavirus bill: 'Totally inadequate' MORE (D-Ore.) on extending unemployment insurance.
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Other significant outstanding issues Democrats are seeking additional funds for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (often short-handed as SNAP or food stamps), expanded worker protections and a wider expansion of the length for unemployment insurance.
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Many business owners, recognizing that unemployment insurance helps you if you get laid off but not if you have your hours cut, are trying to do the right thing by laying off many of their staff.
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Unemployment claims are about to explode, with data from only 15 states putting them somewhere around 600,000 and the possibility that as many as a million people could file for unemployment insurance over the next week.
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It would offer six weeks off at a small fraction of someone's pay, exclude people who need to care for family members who aren't babies and rely on the unemployment insurance system, an already distressed program.
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Gig workers would get labor protections and benefits that all employees get, such as unemployment insurance, health care subsidies, paid parental leave, overtime pay, workers' compensation, paid rest breaks, and a guaranteed $12 minimum hourly wage.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is scheduled to meet with her committee chairs Monday evening to discuss potential options to help mitigate the economic impacts of the disease, such as paid sick leave and unemployment insurance.
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Under the new bill, gig economy workers including Uber drivers would be eligible to apply for unemployment insurance, something they had no access to in previous years as they qualify as contractors, not employees, for Uber.
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While expansions of paid leave, unemployment insurance, and SNAP benefits [the program formally known as food stamps] are crucial, the check will help fill the gaps for Americans that may not quickly navigate different government options.
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The co-founder of Bespoke Investment Group said Wednesday on CNBC's "Squawk Box" that investors must also pay attention to other factors, such as strong consumer lending and "near generational lows" in claims for unemployment insurance.
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With the prospects of fiscal stimulus uncertain, some advocates have called on the Fed to go even further and purchase municipal bonds to help states and cities facing severe revenue shortfalls and spiking unemployment insurance costs.
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The Senate is expected to consider a bipartisan bill this week to provide checks to individual workers, bolster unemployment insurance payments for people who have been laid off from their jobs and offer loans to businesses.
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In a nod to some European countries like fiscally conservative Germany, she said governments should not fuss over spending caps while letting programmes like unemployment insurance do their job of softening the blow from the downturn.
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California's new law, which went into effect on January 1, requires employers to provide minimum wage, workers' compensation, overtime pay, sick time and unemployment insurance to any worker that it cannot prove is an independent contractor.
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The bill funds Medicare, Medicaid, student financial aid, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, public health, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, unemployment insurance, job training, portions of ObamaCare and is a font of finance for Planned Parenthood.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany has suggested the creation of a Europe-wide unemployment insurance system to make the euro zone more resilient to future economic shocks, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said in an interview published on Saturday.
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Control (Midrange) Although the State does not exercise formal control over Unedic, it supervises its management through the presence of a State comptroller in Unedic's governance institutions and through its approval of the unemployment insurance agreement.
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Different from unemployment insurance, the TAA program can pay for training for a period of time, for the worker to completely change careers, as Nieves chose to do in pursuing a career as a surgical technologist.
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Congress is working to pass a major stimulus plan that includes provisions aimed at making coronavirus testing free, expanding unemployment insurance and food assistance, as well as providing Americans with emergency paid leave and sick days.
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Following a huge win last year when the New York Department of Labor ruled all ride-sharing drivers are considered employees, the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board last week decided that they could begin filing for unemployment benefits.
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If turnout is low on Tuesday, Macron could feel emboldened as he presses ahead with revamping France's generous unemployment insurance in a bid to spur those who lose their jobs to get back to work more quickly.
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Other recommendations, such as paying drivers a living wage and making payroll tax contributions to workers compensation, social security, and unemployment insurance, will be a tougher hill to climb to those advocating for a more ethical Uber.
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"Many of those who are brought out of poverty by unemployment insurance and early retirement benefits would fall into poverty again if they received a BI," the report concludes, since a basic income is less well targeted.
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It maintains drivers' status as independent contractors and does not solve their lack of access to social benefits (workers' compensation, unemployment insurance), full labor protections (anti discrimination suits) or full collective bargaining, including the right to strike.
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FDR launched massive public works programs that created jobs for those who were unemployed, and he erected social safety-net programs -- like unemployment insurance and Social Security -- that protected working Americans from the vicissitudes of the market.
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Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Schumer released a joint statement after the speech calling on Republicans to support a bill that included free coronavirus testing, paid emergency leave for workers, a boost in unemployment insurance and other measures.
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Senate Republicans and the White House reiterated on Sunday they are ready to muscle ahead with the $1.6-plus trillion economic rescue package, which includes $350 billion for small businesses support and $250 billion for unemployment insurance.
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After two days of marathon closed-door negotiations, there was no sign of an overarching deal between negotiators late on Saturday, despite Republicans' claims of bipartisan agreement on specific issues including unemployment insurance and small business assistance.
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Already, unemployment insurance claims are surging in multiple states, with a Friday Goldman Sachs report projecting that total unemployment claims are on track to smash an all-time record and could total 2.5 million this week alone.
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Key elements of the proposal are $250 billion set aside for direct payments to individuals and families, $2100 billion in small business loans, $250 billion in unemployment insurance benefits and $500 billion in loans for distressed companies.
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A stimulus bill that President Trump signed into law on Wednesday provides $2000 billion in emergency grants to states for unemployment insurance, and fully half could be immediately used to strengthen staffing, technology and other administrative costs.
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And if some employees can't go to work, that could put a damper on state income and withholding taxes while driving up spending for public welfare programs such as unemployment insurance and state Medicaid health care programs.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top House Democrats on Wednesday introduced a multi-billion dollar bill in response to the coronavirus outbreak, with emergency provisions that include paid sick leave, widespread free testing, food aid and unemployment insurance.
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Between 11 and 21 states could be depleting their unemployment insurance reserves depending on how severe the economic fallout of the coronavirus will be, according to one study about the impact of the coronavirus on unemployment benefits.
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They argued a proposal to add $600 per week to unemployment insurance for up to four months — a core provision of the near-final legislation — could encourage companies to lay off workers and Americans to stay unemployed.
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Expect a significant expansion and enhancement of unemployment insurance, as well as efforts to build on (and expand) the paid family leave provisions Democrats secured in the "phase-two" Coronavirus relief package signed into law this week.
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As he argued in a Labour Day op-ed in the Sacramento Bee, firms must no longer be allowed to "shirk responsibility" and should cough up for things like medical benefits, unemployment insurance and paid sick days.
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If it passes, the bill would guarantee employment protections, like a minimum wage and unemployment insurance, to millions of workers currently classified as independent contractors across the state, including construction workers, cable installers and, of course, drivers.
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Hundreds of thousands of construction workers, janitors, truckers, nail salon workers and others now paid as independent contractors will be entitled to earn minimum wage and overtime, receive unemployment insurance and family leave, and have bargaining rights.
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Uber and Lyft, which have hundreds of thousands of drivers in California, have said that contract work provides flexibility, but critics say the work is insecure and lacks protections like a minimum wage or unemployment insurance. Gov.
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