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Posted September 26, 2023 Read MoreNew analysis from NELP highlights impact of unemployment system despite downgraded capacity.
Posted September 12, 2023 Read MoreMany incarcerated people are working during their sentences, but their labor doesn’t qualify them for unemployment benefits.
Posted September 1, 2023 Read More“For a worker who suddenly loses their job, unemployment can be a catastrophe.”
Posted August 4, 2023 Read MoreBlack workers are often impacted first and worst when job growth slows, forecasting the dangers that other workers will confront.
Posted July 7, 2023 Read MoreThis conservative Court refuses to see that racial segregation is alive and well in our schools, workplaces, and institutions.
Posted June 30, 2023 Read MoreCalifornia should provide economic support to workers who become unemployed, regardless of their immigration status.
Posted June 22, 2023 Read MoreThe bill gives people who lose work because of a natural disaster more time to apply for Disaster Unemployment Assistance.
Posted June 8, 2023 Read MoreDr. William E. Spriggs, Photo Credit: AFL-CIO The entire staff and board of the National Employment Law Project (NELP)(…)
Posted June 7, 2023 Read MoreWorkers are demanding that policymakers take action to support people pushed out of work before wider layoffs begin to mount.
Posted June 2, 2023 Read MoreNELP believes in workers’ right to strike as a fundamental democratic principle.
Posted June 1, 2023 Read MoreSuch programs must promote worker mobility and strengthen economic security and not weaken existing labor rights.
Posted May 25, 2023 Read MoreIt’s an affront to workers that the Federal Reserve continues raising interest rates, threatening to throw the economy into recession.
Posted May 5, 2023 Read MoreCongress must act to build an unemployment insurance system that will support all workers at all times.
Posted April 7, 2023 Read MoreThe bill would ensure that immigrant workers can assert their workplace rights without fear of immigration-based retaliation.
Posted March 28, 2023 Read More5.9 million workers were unemployed in February, an increase of 242,000 from the prior month.
Posted March 10, 2023 Read MoreNearly three million workers are seriously injured on the job every year.
More workers than ever are struggling to get by on low-wage jobs.
A conviction in one’s past shouldn’t be a life sentence to joblessness.
National Employment Law Project
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