The CPD's Case for Unemployment Insurance Reform
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By Traci Dority-Shanklin. Discovered by Player FM and our community — copyright is owned by the publisher, not Player FM, and audio is streamed directly from their servers. Hit the Subscribe button to track updates in Player FM, or paste the feed URL into other podcast apps.
Lockdowns and the coronavirus pandemic laid bare our inept and patchwork unemployment system. Iceland supported its citizens with 30 months of unemployment benefits while US workers barely received six months of benefits. Arelia Valdivia and Francisco Diez are here from the Center for Popular Democracy to explain why our current UI system desperately needs reform and how all workers, both employed and unemployed, can help fix it.
Some highlights from The CPD’s Case for Unemployment Insurance Reform:
01:21 – Meet the Center for Popular Democracy
08:37 – The Sad State of UI Benefits for US Workers
12:49 – An Employer’s Perspective on UI
15:25 – The FIX UI Campaign
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