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Illinois Follows Nevada with Highest Unemployment

State unemployment numbers fluctuate and once again Nevada tops the country, but the state that comes in second is new.

Sequester's Impact on Unemployment Insurance

This Pew Charitable Trusts report looks at the sequester's impact on unemployment insurance in the states.

The Fiscal Cliff and Unemployment Insurance Benefits

Among the expiring tax provisions and scheduled spending cuts included in the fiscal cliff is the end of certain federally funded unemployment insurance (UI) benefits at the end of 2012. While the expiration of these benefits would have little direct effect on state budgets, it could affect economic activity in the states. Those impacts would vary depending on current unemployment rates and overall economic conditions within each state.

Are States’ Unemployment Insurance Loans Dragging Down Economies?

Most states are still paying off those unemployment benefits that went out to millions of those without work during the recession, but it’s the way some are doing it that raises concern.

May 2012 Addendum: A Year or More: The High Cost of Long-Term Unemployment

This report looks at long-term unemployment using statistics from the first quarter of 2012.

Long-Term Unemployment, Five Ways to Look at It

In April 2010, the Pew Fiscal Analysis Initiative released A Year or More: The High Cost of Long-Term Unemployment,which examined the extent of the country’s long-term (LT) unemployment problem and its impact on the nation's fiscal condition. The report defined “long-term unemployment” as a jobless period of a year or longer.

Five Long-Term Unemployment Questions

This series of charts illustrates different dimensions of the U.S. unemployment challenge, such as who make up the long-term unemployed population, where the long-term unemployed are located, and whether workers are being laid off permanently or temporarily.

November 2011 Addendum: A Year or More: The High Cost of Long-Term Unemployment

In the third quarter of 2011, approximately 31.8 percent of the nearly 14 million Americans who were unemployed had been jobless for a year or more.

January 2011 Update: The High Cost of Long-Term Unemployment

As of December 2010, 30 percent of the 14 million Americans who were unemployed had been jobless for a year or more, according to data produced by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics

October 2010 Update: The High Cost of Long-Term Unemployment

A of August 2010, 4.4 million people—roughly the population of Louisiana—had been out of work for a year or more; an increase of nearly 30 percent since December 2009.

A Year or More

The challenge of long-term unemployment has persisted over the last year, even as the overall unemployment rate has improved somewhat. A Year or More: The High Cost of Long-Term Unemployment, a report released by the Pew Fiscal Analysis Initiative in April 2010, found that in December 2009, 23 percent of the 14.7 million unemployed had been out of work for a year or longer.

Economic crisis: Today's state perspective(2)

A scan of today's state news stories shows spreading economic distress - and an array of political plans to cushion the impact, including talk in Nevada of taxing prostitution (it's legal in some counties there). Nevada is among the states hit hardest by the recession.