Gwen Moore Asks Social Insurance Expert: 'Are We Prepared For The Next Pandemic Or A Recession?' YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News

I just found this floating around. I love Rep. Gwen Moore. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqo2...

USPS suspends contributions to employee pensions after warning of "cash crisis" The U.S. Postal Service, which lost $9 billion in 2025, recently warned that it could run out of money within 12 months.

Can we fund USPS retirement instead of eradicating civilizations? www.cbsnews.com/news/usps-pe...

Senators Warren and Wyden asking some good questions about benefits technology: www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

As Americans struggle with rising costs, many states’ unemployment benefits fall short, analysis finds The U.S. unemployment system is not prepared for a recession, with some states having failed to raise their maximum weekly benefit in decades, experts say.

There is still time for states to do one thing that can make them far more recession-ready: raise and index the maximum weekly UI benefit amount. Great story here: www.cnbc.com/2026/03/18/s...

Work & Welfare Subcommittee Hearing on Reclaiming Frozen Fraudulent Pandemic Unemployment Funds YouTube video by Ways and Means Committee Republicans

Despite the years I have spent digging into the nuance and complexity that is the UI system, you may not realize that I am also somehow Master of the Spin. For reference, here is the exchange: www.youtube.com/live/MnaVSCi...

Thank you! That's such better functionality. I need to spend more time on here.

Trump Administration Tells States It Aims to ‘Reimagine’ Jobless Benefits

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/u...

UI fraud has been a real problem that states are spending a great deal of time and resources combatting. This administration is being counterproductive by politicizing it. Excellent story link in replies.

The case for enhanced wage records: Lessons from states - Niskanen Center There is already wide recognition among states of the value of additional data categories for analyzing state labor market dynamics.

Here is my collaboration with Will Raderman @niskanencenter.bsky.social to look into states that have adopted enhanced wage records and how that data can help UI agencies, as well as training and education efforts for workers. www.niskanencenter.org/the-case-for...

When this is all over, I propose we establish a fund to pay damages to those illegally harmed by ICE, funded by assets seized from those responsible, and if they are no longer alive, their estates. Similar to what we did for Japanese American internees, but not 50 years later.

Immigration crackdown threatens U.S. domestic workforce Since arriving in the United States, Margarita has been a live-in home care worker, caring for disabled young people and adults. Now, as Trump threatens to crackdown even further on immigration, Marga...

Arrests, detentions, and deportations will devastate home care, eliminating jobs and the care infrastructure that seniors, people with disabilities, and families depend on

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?

Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

It's great that Senators Warren and Sanders are on top of this!

a graph of the unemployment rate by race/ethnicity

The unemployment rate for Black Americans rose to 8.3% in November, the highest level since 2021 and a 2.1 percentage point increase from the start of this year

Bidenomics were good, actually?

I wonder how DOGE feels not getting paid right now.

Exactly! Thanks for amplifying this, Waldo!

Labor Department looks to pilot intaking unemployment claims for states The effort follows the department’s notice that it may create a national claims database, a move critics say raises cybersecurity, privacy and surveillance risks.

What's different than what has been explored before? “When DOGE is tweeting about UI data, that’s not good stewardship of [personally identifiable information],” Evermore said.
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

How many federal employees live in your state? | Economic Policy Institute

www.epi.org/research/fed...

Thank you, @epi.org for the number of workers in each state and district page! I've been using it all day helping to explain the shutdown and unemployment for federal workers. (Link in replies.)

Unemployment Compensation for Furloughed Federal Employees and Contractors: A Guide to the Shutdown As budget negotiations break down and a federal government shutdown appears likely, unemployment insurance (UI) benefits and Unemployment Compensation for

I hate that this is always relevant, but here it is: tcf.org/content/comm...

Tomorrow is going to be a big day for unemployment agencies even if the government doesn't shut down, because all the deferred resignation people will be trying to figure out if they are eligble.

This article ran one day ago.

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments.

that fox news host still has his job.

Be careful! Accepting her questline locks you out of the golden age ending.

Pay attention. Something dark might be coming.

The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent.

1/ Here's what's happening.

A graphic pointing to a tcf.org commentary, "Our Unemployment System Needs Modernizing: Trump is Doing the Opposite," written by former acting Sec. of Labor Julie Su, Andrew Stettner, and Michele Evermore, featuring a photo of construction workers and grayscale headshots of the authors.

Today, The Century Foundation published a new report from three of the nation's leading experts on unemployment insurance: Sec. @juliesulabor.bsky.social, and @aimstettner.bsky.social and @micheleevermore.bsky.social—leaders of DOL’s Office of UI Modernization during the pandemic: go.tcf.org/ui

Punching In: Trump’s Crackdown on UI Fraud Brings New Fraud Risk The Department of Labor is creating a national database of unemployment insurance claims to crack down on fraud in the jobless aid system and a group is continuing its challenge of the EEOC’s pregnanc...

Trump's Labor Dept. wants to create a national database of unemployment insurance claims. Expert @micheleevermore.bsky.social warns this will drain state budgets, expose workers' private wage data, and make fraud easier by centralizing all records in one system. news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/punching...

All of the alarm numbers that I look for in a jobs report are flashing red right now: Black unemployment is up nearly a point and a half from last year, marginally attached is up, U6 climbing, youth unemployment is 10.6% and Black youth unemployment is a stunning 24.8%. RAGE and tariffs are bad.