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December 2017 marked the ten-year anniversary of the beginning of the Great Recession. The federal-state unemployment insurance (UI) program played a vital role in stabilizing the nation’s economy during the Great Recession and beyond, but today, the UI system is in far worse shape than it was a decade ago. Although the unemployment rate is roughly the same that it was in 2007, before the recession began, the percentage of unemployed workers receiving unemployment insurance has dropped by a quarter, to a record low 27 percent.