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Section 2. Financing: Reform financing of UI to eliminate incentives for states and employers to exclude workers and reduce benefits
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Introduction: Why now is the time to fix the UI system
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Section 1. Universal standards: Guarantee universal minimum standards for benefits eligibility, duration, and levels, with states free to enact more expansive benefits
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Primer: How the unemployment insurance system operates
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Statement of the problem: Why unemployment insurance reform is needed
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Section 5. Benefit levels: Increase UI benefits to levels working families can survive on
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Executive summary: Reforming unemployment insurance
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Section 4. Benefit duration: Expand UI benefit duration to provide longer protection during normal times and use better measures of labor market distress to automatically extend and sustain benefits during downturns
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Appendix table: How proposed UI reforms correct flaws in current policy
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Reforming unemployment insurance: Stabilizing a system in crisis and laying the foundation for equity
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