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...

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...

Ever since the U.S. federal-state system of unemployment insurance was founded in the 1930s, it has provided partial, temporary replacement of wages to eligible workers who lose jobs “through no fault of their own†(as determined by state-level regulations). Unemployment insurance is...

This issue brief notes that labor market outcomes for UI recipients in 1998 were surprisingly poor, despite the strength of the labor market in the late 1990s. Also finds a substantial decrease in the use of reemployment services from 1988 to 1998. Suggests that implementation of WPRS systems...

Ever since the U.S. federal-state system of unemployment insurance was founded in the 1930s, it has provided partial, temporary replacement of wages to eligible workers who lose jobs “through no fault of their own†(as determined by state-level regulations). Unemployment insurance is...