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This edition of Workforce Bulletin contains articles including: NASWA President Urges Senate to Minimize Changes to EUC Program If It Passes A Reauthorization In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), NASWA President Mark Henry (MS)...

This edition of Workforce Bulletin contains articles including: NASWA President Urges Senate to Minimize Changes to EUC Program If It Passes A Reauthorization In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), NASWA President Mark Henry (MS)...

NASWA President Mark Henry (MS) urged the Senate not to make significant changes to the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act program (EUC08) because states would have trouble implementing changes. In the letter, President Henry indicated that certain changes to a possible three-month ex...

“Sequestration” refers to a process of automatic, largely across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently canceled to enforce certain budget policy goals. Most recently, sequestration was triggered by the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA; P.L. 112-25) an...

Many federally funded programs to assist unemployed workers are co-located and coordinated through state-run American Job Centers (AJCs; also known as One-Stop Career Centers). The specific set of benefits and services available to a worker through the AJC network varies by the worker’s

Self-employment is one potential pathway to exit a spell of unemployment. The regular Unemployment Compensation (UC) program generally requires unemployed workers to be actively seeking work and to be available for wage and salary jobs as a condition of eligibility for UC benefits. These