Workers who lose their jobs due to caring for older, sick, or disabled family members are unlikely to receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. This is the case despite provisions in some states’ UI rules that are intended to address such situations.

Workers who lose their jobs due to caring for older, sick, or disabled family members are unlikely to receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. This is the case despite provisions in some states’ UI rules that are intended to address such situations.

The Senate again failed to overcome a filibuster preventing action on a bill to extend federal UI. This Q&A hopes to understand what this means on the ground – and to learn about one strategy for helping such workers.

In an average month in 2012, 6.2 million children lived with unemployed parents, and 12.1 million children were affected by an unemployed or underemployed parent. A recent report from the Urban Institute and First Focus analyzes unemployment from the pers

This brief explains why proposals to drug-test recipients of unemployment benefits would hurt hardworking Americans and create administrative burdens.

Imposing an education-related requirement would deny Unemployment insurance benefits to the most vulnerable workers—workers who otherwise meet all other criteria for UI—and would undercut the purpose of UI by establishing a condition of eligibility unrelated to work or workforce attachment.