unemployment insurance
a government program that provides a limited number of payments to eligible workers who are involuntarily unemployed.
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Alongside unemployment insurance, a relief proposal at the scale of the crisis should include the promised $2,000 check, followed by additional checks of $1,000 or more, monthly or at least quarterly, until employment approaches pre-pandemic levels.
Americans Need Recurring Stimulus Checks Until the Pandemic Is Over | Natalie Foster | January 25, 2021 | TimeThis is on top of their state unemployment insurance benefit.
Still waiting on your $300 unemployment benefit to start? What you need to know | Lance Lambert | January 12, 2021 | FortuneContractors are not entitled to protections such as minimum-wage requirements, overtime rules, workers’ compensation should they get injured on the job, and unemployment insurance, while employees are.
Albertsons is laying off employees and replacing them with gig workers, as app platforms rise | Eli Rosenberg | January 6, 2021 | Washington PostThe stimulus bill passed in March provided an additional $600 weekly in unemployment insurance benefits to everyone who qualified for a state program.
Everything jobless Americans need to know about the $300 unemployment benefit | Lance Lambert | December 28, 2020 | FortuneHe said that after a swell of tenants fell behind on rent in late summer, emergency rent programs and unemployment insurance allowed many to catch up, but their underlying problem ― jobs that have not returned ― has not been resolved.
Struggling renters face avalanche of evictions without federal aid | Jonathan O'Connell, Anu Narayanswamy | December 25, 2020 | Washington Post
At the same time, lower joblessness means fewer people using food stamps, unemployment insurance, and other safety net measures.
But first, this Congress needs to restore the unemployment insurance you just let expire for 1.6 million people.
Full Text of President Obama’s 2014 State of the Union Address | | January 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLast month, when their unemployment insurance was cut off, she sat down and wrote me a letter—the kind I get every day.
Full Text of President Obama’s 2014 State of the Union Address | | January 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe president is framing unemployment insurance extension as a moral test—but he always does.
Obama: The Economy Is Great, Extend Jobless Benefits | Stuart Stevens | January 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe pure politics of unemployment insurance is pretty straightforward: supporting it is “better” politically than opposing.
Obama: The Economy Is Great, Extend Jobless Benefits | Stuart Stevens | January 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSpends all his time in bars, and never runs out of dough—and don't tell me you can do that on unemployment insurance.
Out Like a Light | Gordon Randall GarrettSocial security and unemployment insurance laws were broadened and strengthened.
Social security has been extended to ten million more Americans and unemployment insurance to four million more.
Legislation was enacted to provide unemployment insurance protection to some four million additional Americans.
We must modernize our unemployment insurance and establish a high-level commission on automation.
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