UI during COVID in US – How to improve it

This panel will focus on changes in unemployment insurance (UI) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and how lessons from these changes can guide reform of the federal-state UI system. For example, what lessons does the CARES Act UI payments experience offer on how we can better promote an equitable recovery? Based on the CARES Act experience, what should be the minimum required state responsibilities in the regular federal-state UI system?

Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story @ “Unemployment Insurance During the COVID Crisis: Lessons for Improving ” by Lei Ding, Christopher J. O’Leary et al.