Public Policy

Russell Weaver explains the recent changes in national and New York State unemployment insurance claim numbers.

ILR Professor Francine Blau is the lead author of an analysis, published by “ECONOFACT,” of frontline workers and their pay.

Russell Weaver helps answer the question: What might the report of UI cmails foretell about unemployment in New York State?

Erica Groshen explains how a dose of good news in March can be found in the difference between furloughs and layoffs.

The processing capacity of state departments of labor are outpaced by an unprecedented volume of unemployment claims and call for emergency relief measures.

The national unemployment rate could go up to 20 percent in April, says ILR's Erica Groshen.

Understand changes to unemployment insurance in the first five weeks of the coronavirus crisis and beyond.

Learn what the CARES Act does for for working people, low-income people and gig workers.

Exactly who is deemed an "essential worker" in New York state?

Which New York state residents are most likely to lose their jobs? Where do they live and what do they do?

The Federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act -- here's how it works.

State and local government agencies need to identify flexible public funding that can provide rapid assistance to newly unemployed workers.

In a “Gotham Gazette” opinion piece, ILR's Fred Kotler advocates for expanding the prevailing wage in New York state.

ILR Visiting Scholar Erica Groshen, who served as commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, discussed on the “Capital Pressroom” radio program how the economy has been stunned by the coronavirus.

Surprise medical bills of huge proportions follow many emergency room visits. Private equity firms that increasingly control hospitals are often to blame and need to stop the practice, particularly during the pandemic, writes Professor Rose Batt.

ILR School Associate Professors Ariel Avgar and Adam Litwin are co-authors of a 2017 study that is relevant to controlling the pandemic: the relationship between labor relations and germ transmission, including “superbugs.”