Providing Unemployment Insurance to Immigrants and Other Excluded Workers
The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic and its induced recession underscored the crucial importance of unemployment insurance (UI) to workers, and to the stability of the American economy. Temporary federal expansions of unemployment systems during the pandemic showed how they can quickly be scaled to increase benefit levels and to include categories of workers who…
The report discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the need for unemployment insurance programs that include immigrants and other workers excluded from traditional UI.
It highlights state-level efforts in Colorado, California, and New York to create or propose inclusive unemployment benefits for undocumented immigrants and excluded workers, stressing the economic and social advantages of such programs and the critical role of state leadership in the absence of federal action.
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