unemployment insurance
noun
: social insurance against involuntary unemployment that provides unemployment compensation for a limited period to unemployed workers
also
: unemployment compensation
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Layoff headlines are overblown, based on hard data on people filing new claims for unemployment insurance.
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Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
The Carson resident worked for more than a decade with the department that manages California’s unemployment insurance program, according to public salary data.
—William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 11 May 2025
Economic data Markets shrugged off weekly initial unemployment insurance claims, which ticked down by 1,000 to 224,000 and suggested the labor market is holding steady, some economists said.
—Medora Lee, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
Established in the early days of pandemic shutdowns in 2020, the IDES program for enhanced unemployment insurance was overwhelmed with claims and badly mismanaged, the Illinois auditor general found in a report issued in 2023.
—Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2025
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Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
The Carson resident worked for more than a decade with the department that manages California’s unemployment insurance program, according to public salary data.
—William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 11 May 2025
Economic data Markets shrugged off weekly initial unemployment insurance claims, which ticked down by 1,000 to 224,000 and suggested the labor market is holding steady, some economists said.
—Medora Lee, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
Established in the early days of pandemic shutdowns in 2020, the IDES program for enhanced unemployment insurance was overwhelmed with claims and badly mismanaged, the Illinois auditor general found in a report issued in 2023.
—Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2025
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“Unemployment insurance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unemployment%20insurance. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.
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