Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Income Security and Family SupportPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Modernizing Unemployment Insurance to Reduce Barriers for Jobless Workers
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Income Security and Family SupportPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Modernizing Unemployment Insurance to Reduce Barriers for Jobless Workers :.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Income Security and Family SupportPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Unemployment Insurance Reform
Author: David E. BalducchiPublisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute
ISBN: 0880996528
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
The Unemployment Insurance (UI) system is a lasting piece of the Social Security Act which was enacted in 1935. But like most things that are over 80 years old, it occasionally needs maintenance to keep it operating smoothly while keeping up with the changing demands placed upon it. However, the UI system has been ignored by policymakers for decades and, say the authors, it is broken, out of date, and badly in need of repair. Stephen A. Wandner pulls together a group of UI researchers, each with decades of experience, who describe the weaknesses in the current system and propose policy reforms that they say would modernize the system and prepare us for the next recession.
Unemployed and Uninsured
Author: Isaac ShapiroPublisher:
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Category : Insurance, Unemployment
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Increasing Economic Security for American Workers
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Income Security and Family SupportPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Displaced workers
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Antipoverty Effects of Unemployment Insurance
Author: Thomas GabePublisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781480151857
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
This report examines the antipoverty effects of unemployment insurance benefits during the past recession and the economic recovery. The analysis highlights the impact of the additional and expanded unemployment insurance (UI) benefits available to unemployed workers through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA; P.L. 111-5) and the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC08) program (Title IV of P.L. 110-252). In 2011, approximately 56% of all unemployed individuals were receiving UI benefits (down from a high of 66% in 2010) and thus were directly affected by legislative changes to the UI system. UI benefits appear to have a large poverty-reducing effect among unemployed workers who receive them. Given the extended length of unemployment among jobless workers, the additional weeks of UI benefits beyond the regular program's 26-week limit appear to have had an especially important effect in poverty reduction. Estimates presented in this report are based on Congressional Research Service (CRS) analysis of 25 years of data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS/ASEC), administered from 1988 to 2012. The period examined includes the three most recent economic recessions. This report contributes to recent research on the antipoverty effects of unemployment insurance in several ways. Its period of analysis allows comparisons across the three most recent recessions. The report includes estimates of the effects on the poverty rate for the unemployed, for those receiving UI, and for families that report at least one family member receiving UI. It also estimates how much of reported UI benefits went directly to decreasing family poverty levels. This report's analysis shows that UI benefits appear to reduce the prevalance of poverty significantly among the population that receives them. The UI benefits' poverty reduction effects appear to be especially important during and immediately after recessions. The analysis also finds that there was a markedly higher impact on poverty in the most recent recession than in the previous two recessionary periods. The estimated antipoverty effects of UI benefits in 2011 were about 50% higher than that of two previous peak years of unemployment—1993 and 2003. In 2011, over one quarter (26.5%) of unemployed people who received UI benefits would have been considered poor prior to taking UI benefits into account; after counting UI benefits, their poverty rate decreased by just under half, to 13.8%. UI receipt affects not only the poverty status of the person receiving the benefit, but the poverty status of all related family members, as well. In 2011, while an estimated 10.2 million people reported UI receipt during the year, an additional 15.8 million family members lived with the 10.2 million receiving the benefit. Consequently, UI receipt in 2011 affected the income status of some 26.0 million persons. In 2011, the poverty rate for persons in families who had received unemployment benefits was almost 40% less than it otherwise would have been. In 2011, UI benefits lifted an estimated 2.3 million people out of poverty, of which well over one quarter (26.8%; 620,000) were children living with a family member who received UI benefits.
Women’s Rights to Social Security and Social Protection
Author: Beth GoldblattPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1849469776
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This collection examines the human rights to social security and social protection from a women's rights perspective. The contributors stress the need to address women's poverty and exclusion within a human rights framework that takes account of gender. The chapters unpack the rights to social security and protection and their relationship to human rights principles such as gender equality, participation and dignity. Alongside conceptual insights across the field of women's social security rights, the collection analyses recent developments in international law and in a range of national settings. It considers the ILO's Social Protection Floors Recommendation and the work of UN treaty bodies. It explores the different approaches to expansion of social protection in developing countries (China, Chile and Bolivia). It also discusses conditionality in cash transfer programmes, a central debate in social policy and development, through a gender lens. Contributors consider the position of poor women, particularly single mothers, in developed countries (Australia, Canada, the United States, Ireland and Spain) facing the damaging consequences of welfare cuts. The collection engages with shifts in global discourse on the role of social policy and the way in which ideas of crisis and austerity have been used to undermine rights with harsh impacts on women.
In Aid of the Unemployed
Author: Joseph M. BeckerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Unemployment Insurance in the United States
Author: Christopher J. O'LearyPublisher: W. E. Upjohn Institute
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Discusses the unemployment insurance system in which programmes are operated by each state within the minimum standards established by the federal government.
In the Matter of Representative Charles B. Rangel
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Standards of Official ConductPublisher:
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Category : Governmental investigations
Languages : en
Pages : 1520
Book Description