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August 4, 2021

Note: A condensed version of this article appeared in The Hill on 21 July 2021 Since the moment the CARES Act first expanded unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in late March...

March 8, 2021

8 March 2021 Note: A condensed version of this post appeared in the 4 March 2021 issue of The Buffalo News (For users without a subscription to The Buffalo News, a scan of that...

November 4, 2020

4 November 2020 (Repost from the Cornell Chronicle The original article is available here) Yesterday, the Cornell University School of Industrial Labor Relations (ILR)...

September 29, 2020

29 September 2020 On Friday, 2 October 2020, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will release its monthly jobs report for September 2020 The consensus among economists is that...

September 28, 2020

28 September 2020 The Cornell University ILR School Buffalo Co-Lab, through its Good DEEDS and High Road Policy initiatives, is pleased to announce a new open data tool: our...

September 25, 2020

25 September 2020 When we last reported on new weekly unemployment insurance (UI) claims in New York State back in mid-June, the news was mixed On one hand, new UI claims had...

September 9, 2020

13 April 2020 (last updated 9 September 2020 at 12:10pm) The deeper we get into the COVID-19 pandemic, the clearer it becomes that the virus is not some "great equalizer" that...

July 28, 2020

21 July 2020 Robert Hockett 1 Introduction Since Facebook’s Libra announcement of June 2019, monetary authorities worldwide have redoubled efforts to develop central bank...

July 4, 2020

4 July 2020 Crises require people and organizations to break from normal routines -- to redirect energy and capacity toward response and recovery Almost immediately after...

June 18, 2020

18 June 2020 Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of weekly unemployment insurance (UI) claims has been one of the most closely monitored and widely cited data...