This paper summarizes federal legislation passed in response to unemployment after the Great Recession, as well as related research. The paper focuses on the durations of congressionally legislated emergency unemployment benefits that, in conjunction with other unemployment benefits, could total...

Available from the Unemployment Insurance Service as UIS Occasional Paper No. 95-2.

Also available as Unemployment Insurance Occasional Paper 94-2. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration.

This two-page issue brief summarizes a concept originally proposed under the Back to Work Incentives Act (and subsequently included in the President's fiscal year 2005 budget) to give unemployed workers greater incentives and access to services to help them make a quick return to work. Targeted...

Available from: UI Occasional Papers, Unemployment Insurance Service, Frances Perkins Bldg., Room S-4519, 200 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20210. (202) 208-5915 x200, Wayne Gordon. Ask for UIS Occasional Paper No. 97-3.