Building a National Unemployment Insurance System
Authors: Stephen A. Wandner and Christopher King
Date: February 12, 2021 (revised March 16, 2021)
Publication Type: Policy Brief, 25 pp.
Dr. Chris King, Senior Research Scientist and former RMC Director, along with Stephen A. Wandner, a Senior Fellow with the National Academy of Social Insurance, has co-authored a timely and critically important policy brief on modernizing the U.S. Unemployment Insurance program. The pandemic has made stark the long-running weaknesses in the UI program, but King and Wandner present solutions that are both practical and imminently practicable. This brief is the product of the Better Employment and Training Strategies (BETS) task force, an ad-hoc group, including the RMC, of more than 40 workforce development experts created to provide critically needed input into policy and programmatic conversations around improving the country’s employment and training system. You can read more from the authors and BETS here.
Individual Endorsements
Steve Crawford (GW Institute of Public Policy, The George Washington University)
Stuart Andreason (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Center for Workforce and Economic Opportunity)
Larry Good (Corporation for a Skilled Workforce)
Earl Buford (Partner4Work)
Amanda Cage (National Fund for Workforce Solutions)
Maureen Conway (Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program)
Bob Jones (former Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration/U.S. Department of Labor)
Clair Minson (Sandra Grace Consulting)
Todd Greene (WorkRise, Urban Institute)
Annelies Goger (Brookings Institution)
James Haynes (OIC of America)
Andy Van Kleunen (National Skills Coalition)
Jeanine LaPrad (Corporation for a Skilled Workforce)
Mary Alice McCarthy (New America)
Sarah Miller (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
Jane Oates (former Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration/U.S. Department of Labor)
Brent Parton (New America)
Heath Prince (Ray Marshall Center, University of Texas at Austin)
Martha Ross (Brookings Institution)
Thomas Showalter (National Youth Employment Coalition)
Martin Simon (formerly National Governors Association)
Katie Spiker (National Skills Coalition)
Carl Van Horn (Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, Rutgers University)
Organizational Endorsements
National Skills Coalition
Ray Marshall Center, University of Texas at Austin