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This edition of Workforce Bulletin contains articles including: Senate Expected to Pass EUC Extension Early Next Week On Thursday, March 27, the Senate voted 65 to 34 to begin debate on a bipartisan bill to retroactively extend the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program for five...

This March 17, 2014 email is from Ryan McKenna, Director, Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, on the status of Missouri's CRC compliance review.

Contact Information of Individual Submitting Nomination Nominator: Allyssa Miget Email Address: allyssa.miget@ded.mo.gov Agency Name: Department of Economic Development   Talent For Tomorrow The purpose of the Talent For Tomorrow (T4T) initiative is to create a systematic and co...

What have states, universities and other partners learned from projects that facilitate data sharing and develop state analytic and research capacity? What are the implications for federal and state practices and policies? A panel discussion.   Julia Lane, Director in the Colerid...

Several key provisions related to extended federal unemployment benefits are temporary and, therefore, scheduled to expire: Authorization for the temporary Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC08) program is scheduled to expire the week ending on or before January 1, 2014 (i.e., Decembe...

On Friday, December 13th Missouri Governor Jay Nixon appointed Missouri State Senator Ryan McKenna as the new Director of the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. McKenna started his new position this week on Wednesday, December 18th. Mr. McKenna, a Jefferson City, MO nat...

This edition of Workforce Bulletin contains articles including: House and Senate Pass Two-Year Budget Agreement, Sequestration Relief Provided House and Senate budget negotiators reached a two-year budget agreement on Tuesday, December 10, 2013, to set overall discretionary spending levels...

The temporary Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC08) program may provide additional federal unemployment insurance benefits to eligible individuals who have exhausted all available benefits from their state Unemployment Compensation (UC) programs. Currently, EUC08 benefits are availab...

The U.S. Department of Treasury recently released its ninth newsletter on the Treasury Offset Program’s (TOP) Unemployment Insurance Program initiative. The initiative collects UI debt from federal income tax refunds due to fraud or a person’s failure to report wages while collecting unemp...

This report analyzes several types of recent changes to state Unemployment Compensation (UC) programs. Three categories of UC state law issues are considered: (1) changes in the duration of state UC unemployment benefits; (2) changes in the UC weekly benefit amount; and (3) the enactment i...