Preserve UI Reforms to Preserve Jobs
Author: WashACE
Originally published on Feb 14, 2005
The 2003 unemployment insurance reform legislation improved the balance in a system that had imposed the nation’s highest employer UI taxes, combining extraordinary benefits with lax enforcement standards. Now, fewer than two years later and before the reforms have taken full effect, reform opponents want to revisit the legislation, contending it went too far. It did not. Now is not the time to retreat from the commitment made in 2003 to a stronger economy and a secure UI program.
Relevant topics:- Economics
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