How A Decades-Old Unemployment Insurance System Is Measuring Up In The Pandemic
Indivar Dutta-Gupta, a co-executive director at the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality, explains the U.S. unemployment insurance system's origins and role today.
Since the pandemic started, 38.6 million Americans have filed for unemployment claims, according to new numbers announced Thursday.
That's more than one in five American workers using an unemployment insurance system first established decades ago to serve a very different population.
It was 1935 and the country was struggling to emerge from the Great
