“The nation’s unemployment insurance system, which has hardly changed since its inception in 1935, should be revamped to aid more workers displaced by a transforming economy, economists said this week as they released overhaul proposals.” (New York Times, Thursday)
The real solution? Get government out of the insurance business.
FEE Timely Classic
“It’s Time to Privatize Unemployment Insurance” by David Honigman and George C. Leef