Unemployment insurance

States are upgrading IT and accessibility to unemployment insurance, but it's a long hard road.

States are upgrading antiquated technology. But there are still big disparities among states.

The report says decades of underinvestment in personnel and technology have led to weaknesses that were exposed during the pandemic, when there was high demand for benefits.

Some crash, others don’t work on mobile devices. In some states, workers have to wait to receive new passwords by mail to access their accounts.

What business owners are seeing, plus a look at unemployment and job search data.

More people are relying on gig work, which puts a lot of risk on the workers themselves.

Making the unemployment system a federal program could help reduce some of the huge racial disparities that currently exist.

But it doesn't account for those who've stopped looking for work.

Congress was able to pass the CARES Act quickly, but its benefits expire Dec. 26. Will they be extended?

Instead of calculating PUA benefits based on people’s income, many states have just been paying the minimum benefit.