Extending Unemployment Compensation Benefits During Recessions

Whittaker, Julie M. ; Isaacs, Katelin P.

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Economic policy;    Business cycles;    Unemployment;    Labor;   

RP-ID  :  RL34340
RP-ID  :  RL34340_2012Sep13

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report describes the history of temporary federal extensions to unemployment benefits from 1980 to the present. It has five sections which discuss: [1] background information on unemployment compensation (UC) benefits, [2] a definition of a recession and the process of declaring a recession, [3] a summary of the legislative history of federal extensions of unemployment benefits, [4] figures examining the statistics of recessions, and [5] previous methods for financing temporary recession programs.