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 […]