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New analysis from NELP highlights impact of unemployment system despite downgraded capacity.

Many incarcerated people are working during their sentences, but their labor doesn’t qualify them for unemployment benefits.

“For a worker who suddenly loses their job, unemployment can be a catastrophe.”

Black workers are often impacted first and worst when job growth slows, forecasting the dangers that other workers will confront.

The bill gives people who lose work because of a natural disaster more time to apply for Disaster Unemployment Assistance.

Workers are demanding that policymakers take action to support people pushed out of work before wider layoffs begin to mount.

It’s an affront to workers that the Federal Reserve continues raising interest rates, threatening to throw the economy into recession.

Congress must act to build an unemployment insurance system that will support all workers at all times.

5.9 million workers were unemployed in February, an increase of 242,000 from the prior month.