The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the U.S. economy and labor market. We assess the initial spike in unemployment due to … the virus response and possible paths for the official unemployment rate through 2021. Substantial uncertainty surrounds … the path for measured unemployment, depending on the path of the virus and containment measures and their impact on …

week in unemployment insurance (UI) benefit payments from late March through July 2020. This unprecedented increase in UI …

Despite unprecedented extensions of available unemployment insurance (UI) benefits during the "Great Recession" of 2007 …