[lbo-talk] Re: Insured unemployment

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Aug 12 16:02:37 PDT 2004


Michael Pollak wrote:


>Here's my puzzle. Unemployment benefits last 26 weeks, right? So
>at first glance, from these stats, only 20.4% of the unemployed
>aren't getting them. Now obviously we deduct a few who slugged
>their boss, but still -- how do we get a figure of 58% not eligible?
>I would imagine most of those are people who didn't work long enough
>in the preceding year -- which means to me that they're not only
>unemployed now, they haven't really been employed in over a year.

There are also eligibility issues apart from duration - I think EPI has covered this. More people just don't qualify for UI benefits than a generation ago.

Doug



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