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Over the last 20 years, the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) has surveyed state workforce agencies to determine the amount of state funds used to supplement federal grants to operate a variety of federal workforce and unemployment insurance programs. The NASWA State

For several years, NASWA has surveyed states to determine the amount of state funds used to supplement federal grants to operate a variety of federal programs. The NASWA State Supplemental Funding Survey is the Association’s longest running survey, with NASWA collecting supplemental fundin...

This resource document contains the following: Current State UI Laws and Recent Legislative Activity Possible Legal Issues Regarding "Suspicionless" Drug Testing in Public Benefit Programs Constitutional issues Statutory conformity issues Cost and Other Issues States Might Consider

As part of the Continuing Appropriations Act of 2011, (P.L. 111-10), the Workforce Investment Act’s state set-aside (also known as the Governors’ Reserve) was reduced from 15 percent to 5 percent, a reduction of $206.2 million or 67 percent. These funds have been used for required and allo...

State UI tax revenue is projected to increase by about 17 percent in 2011 compared to 2010 through a combination of factors including experience rated taxes on employers, shifts to higher tax schedules, increases in taxable wage bases and increases in total wages as the economy recovers fr...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the Recovery Act) includes nearly $800 billion dollars in federal spending through a number of provisions intended to result in rapid economic stimulus nationwide, particularly in terms of providing jobs, employment services, and retraini...

ETA engaged the National Association of State Workforce Agencies' Center for Employment Security Education and Research, and the Information Technology Support Center to "initiate a two-phased effort to develop a national vision for improving the UI and workforce systems' connection and in...

An analysis of the 53 UI websites was conducted by America's Job Exchange (AJE) during October 2010 to evaluate how states compared to each other in the features, functions, and content areas they offered. The deliverable was the Summary Analysis Report in which the states were ranked on o...

NASWA has released a report on the status and condition of Unemployment Insurance (UI) Information Technology (IT) systems across the nation. Forty states contributed to the report through a survey conducted by NASWA’s technology arm, the Information Technology Support Center (ITSC).

A new NASWA report detailing the achievements and challenges of some 48 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico to implement the unemployment insurance provisions of the Recovery Act was released this week through NASWA's research arm, the Center for Employment Security Education ...