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We all need a safety system that is equitable for everyone in the state. Even if we don’t have immigration status, we cannot be excluded from basic protections like unemployment insurance. The ...
I would like to inform the readership the letter to the editor, “The benefits of unemployment,” published Jan. 10 was grossly misleading and inherently offensive. I challenge the veracity of ...
Darlene Nix is correct that employers make the payments into the unemployment insurance system (Aug. 29 letter to the editor). However, it is the employees who shoulder the burden of the tax, not ...
Among all the reasons advanced to explain Democrats’ defeat at the polls, structural unemployment has gotten little or no mention. Technological advancement creates demand for new skills ...
I reluctantly have to agree that our elected Republicans have shown that a temporary boost in unemployment benefits would extinguish workers' desire to return to their jobs. After all, their ...
It was interesting to read Al Lasso’s Monday letter to the Review-Journal in which he thinks the way to get people back to work is to continue to let them receive unemployment benefits for four ...
The unemployment rate for spouses of service members is almost 30 percent. Adding those who are underemployed brings that rate up to 90 percent. This loss in productivity costs the country $1 ...
Carol Wilcox asks someone to explain why “increasing interest rates decreases inflation except via recession and unemployment” (Letters, August 8). Easy. It happens because higher interest ...
I am writing in the hopes of exposing the broken unemployment system here in Michigan. I am a 61-year-old hard-working man, but I have been unemployed since February. We have yet to receive a ...
Unemployment benefits are a vital lifeline for working people to rely on for the basic necessities like food, shelter and heat until they are able to resolve their employment situation.
Undocumented immigrants come to the US bringing professional and trade skills and willingness to do work that Americans won't do.
Unemployed workers should receive letters in the next two to three weeks with instructions for claiming the recently approved extension of federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation. Michigan's ...