New York’s Unemployment Insurance System Is Floundering. Here’s How to Save It.

New York’s Unemployment Insurance System Is Floundering. Here’s How to Save It.

By James A. Parrott, THE NEW SCHOOL | Editorial credit: JHVEPhoto / shutterstock.com Unemployment insurance (UI) provides bedrock social and economic security for us all. But in New York that foundation is badly fractured. Our State-administered UI funding setup unfairly penalizes small- and medium-sized employers. It pays woefully inadequate benefits to laid-off workers. And it […]

Days After Labor Day, Biden-⁠Harris Administration Issues Executive Order to Promote Good Jobs Through Investing in America Agenda

Days After Labor Day, Biden-⁠Harris Administration Issues Executive Order to Promote Good Jobs Through Investing in America Agenda

By Whitehouse.gov | Editorial Credit: Yuri A./shutterstock.com “Wall Street did not build America; the middle class built America, and unions built the middle class.” – President Biden on Labor Day, 2024 Today, President Biden will travel to Michigan to sign a landmark Executive Order on Investing in America and Investing in American Workers (“Good Jobs […]