>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