Employment
When Jobs Go Away for Good
Recently, the trade adjustment program has factored into the Obama administration's response to the nation's stubbornly high unemployment rate. The federal economic stimulus law has temporarily expanded eligibility for the job re-training assistance beyond the field of manufacturing, and also improved the financial benefits associated with a program that was already considered the Cadillac of unemployment insurance Although the Trade Adjustment Assistance program had been around since the 1970s, states weren’t taking advantage of it much at the time." more »
Economic Snapshot: Unmarried Women Continue to See High Unemployment
Long-term unemployment compounds older workers’ economic uncertainty. Older workers and divorced, widowed, or separated women may face their own set of challenges in their job searches. more »
Resolving Work-Life Conflicts; It’s Time for Policies to Match Modern Family Needs
Families have for too long struggled to make their jobs fit their family life as the institutions around them continue to assume that the typical worker has a stay-at-home spouse and that the typical caregiver has a full-time breadwinner for income support. more »
An EPI Paper, Unfair China Trade Costs Local Jobs
n terms of total jobs displaced, California was first, with 370,000 jobs lost, followed by Texas, New York, Illinois, and Florida, which all lost more than 100,000 jobs." more »
