US: Lessons learned from expanded unemployment insurance during COVID-19

Submitted by pmassetti on Fri, 05/06/2022 - 14:54
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brookings.edu (27.05.2022) The COVID-19 recession was born out of a public health threat. Thus, unemployment insurance (UI) was meant to insure people against income losses associated not just with involuntary job loss, as in a usual recession, but also with the choice not to work due to the public health risk.

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