[lbo-talk] Re: Insured unemployment

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Aug 9 14:49:14 PDT 2004


Laurence Shute wrote:


>My impression was that fewer than 40% of US workers were covered by
>unemployment insurance. For instance, see Figure A in this EPI
>article from August 2001.

About 42% of the officially unemployed are drawing benefits. But about 97% of all U.S. workers are registered with the UI system.

I'm a little surprised by this sort of thing. Do people think the BLS is staffed by idiots?

Doug



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