Unemployment Insurance Reform

A Book Review

Book Being Reviewed:

Wandner, Stephen A., ed. 2018. Unemployment Insurance Reform: Fixing a Broken System. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. https://doi.org/10.17848/9780880996532

When Covid-19 was recognized to be the modern plague, the government called for a country wide quarantine. Everyone, who were not essential workers, were told to stay home. As a result, millions of Americans lost their jobs.

During that record period of unemployment. A program, called unemployment insurance (UI), was expanded through congress.

This expansion has brought about a controversial debate on the UI’s labor economics. As a result, more people than ever have become interested in unemployment insurance: how it works, why it works, and what it does to the economy.

However, there are barely any introductory resources on the UI.

This article seeks to share with you a comprehensive book on the subject. One that may be able to fill such a position.