Grassroots org advocating for comprehensive pandemic relief & helping you do it too. #ExtendPUA
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Huge day for movement to #FixUI - @USDOL announces $15 million for states to work with community navigators to bridge equity gaps in #unemployment benefits take-up. Navigators have been a fixture of #snap and #CHIP benefits wdr.doleta.gov/directives/co…
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.@RebeccaDNELP, @pelhamprog, and @ExtendPua joined us to discuss the transformative impact of pandemic unemployment programs, which helped millions of workers pay their bills in 2020 and 2021. (And why we need to #MakeUISexyAgain so we can #FixUI!) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… (4/)
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This is not the flex the White House is pretending it is. Millions of Americans are no longer ELIGIBLE to file for unemployment because of expired pandemic programs and maxed out weeks. Businesses are closing again & there's zero safety net for workers.
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Yike! If you lost work and March 2020 and went back to work on July 2021, you would be ineligible for state #UI if you lost work and filed in the 4th quarter of 2021 due to Omicron closures #Unemployment
If you collected unemployment benefits earlier in the pandemic and have lost work due to Omicron, your current eligibility for UI may depend on how much you worked in between lapses.
More from @GregIacurci and @pelhamprog: cnbc.com/2021/12/17/omicron-…
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We're heading into this winter Omicron wave without expanded unemployment benefits or any guarantee of paid sick leave. PPP is over. Rental assistance has stopped flowing in some states and there's no federal eviction moratorium. Basically, we're going in without a safety net.
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Another caveat to the drop in Black women's unemployment: Black women's labor force participation fell between Oct and Nov, and, in fact, has been falling since August. While employment did increase, the drop in unemployment (if sustained) happened in part b/c participation fell.
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New data out today show 3.2 million workers continued to claim #unemployment benefits at the end of October even as 7.4 million workers were unemployed. dol.gov/ui/data.pdf
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COVID-19 spurred the largest employment loss since the Great Depression. As workers demanded relief, Congress expanded unemployment insurance + helped millions.
🧵Here are 7 Things We Learned About Unemployment Insurance During the Pandemic bit.ly/3wSJ8Ah
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🚨🚨NEW BILL ALERT🚨🚨
Today an *amazing* contingent of lawmakers introduced a house companion to @RonWyden @SenSherrodBrown + @SenatorBennet’s #UIimprovementact.
It tackles fundamental flaws in Unemployment Insurance that cause disparities in access. Let's discuss. 1/15
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NEW from @julianamkaplan @AndyKiersz and me:
Biden gambled that cutting off federal jobless aid would drive people back to work. The September jobs report blew a hole through that idea.
businessinsider.com/biden-se…
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1 month after #pandemic #unemployment benefits were eliminated, @Mark_Zuckerman and I say we must not turn our back on our fellow Americans @CNNOpinion cnn.com/2021/10/05/opinions/…
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“The hypothesis Republican governors and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce offered, that unemployment benefits were what was holding back hiring ... has been disproved, at least so far,” said @pelhamprog.
usatoday.com/story/money/202…
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If the @stlouisfed model is correct, let's put to rest forever all the whining about the generosity of UI benefits, and then let's pray, because with only regular state UI our economy lacks any anti-cyclical policy. Even if job gains are small, we are in trouble.
St. Louis Fed Model Sees Loss of 818,000 Jobs in September marketnews.com/mni-st-louis-…
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Key Senate Democrat unveils plan to make states provide at least 26 weeks of unemployment benefits--the absolute least Congress should to do to start to #FixUI after failing to #ExtendUI businessinsider.com/ron-wyde… via @businessinsider
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New episode! We talked with @RebeccaDNELP, executive director at @NelpNews, @TCFdotorg senior fellow @pelhamprog, and @ExtendPua co-founder Stephanie Freed about unemployment insurance, and what's needed to #FixUI.
🎧 Listen now ⬇️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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.@CoriBush, @JamaalBowmanNY, @AyannaPressley are co-sponsoring AOC's legislation to extend unemployment insurance until Feb. 1, 2022. Measure expected to fail w/ WH, most Dems supporting expiration of benefits
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In August, the labor market improved slightly _more_ in states that did not cut off federal UI early than in cutoff states.
Since May, employment up similarly in both types of states, though unemployment fell more in cutoff states.
An update with August CPS microdata.
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