Extending Unemployment Compensation Benefits During Recessions
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This report describes the history of temporary federal extensions to unemployment benefits from 1980 to the present. It has five sections which discuss: [1] background information on unemployment compensation (UC) benefits, [2] a definition of a recession and the process of declaring a recession, [3] a summary of the legislative history of federal extensions of unemployment benefits, [4] figures examining the statistics of recessions, and [5] previous methods for financing temporary recession p…
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Date:
May 2, 2013
Creator:
Whittaker, Julie M. & Isaacs, Katelin P.
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department