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Mason Bishop explores a landscape study on state and federal job training grants and programs
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The Bulwark

Here’s a Kind of Job-Training Program That Works

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Labor Department Report Finds Pandemic Unemployment Program Had a Staggering 36 Percent Improper Payment Rate

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A Tale of Two Legal Tangles, Part III: Looking for the Next Way Out

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The Increasingly Irrelevant Federal Unemployment Trust Funds

By Matt Weidinger
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Federal Lawmakers Propose Paying States to Recover Unemployment Fraud

By Matt Weidinger
Op-Ed
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Washington Examiner

GAO Says Unemployment Insurance System Is at ‘High Risk’ for Fraud and Abuse

By Matt Weidinger
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June 08, 2022
AEIdeas

GAO Says Unemployment Insurance System Is at ‘High Risk’ for Fraud and Abuse

By Matt Weidinger
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May 06, 2022
AEIdeas

Good News, Bad News on US Productivity Growth

By James Pethokoukis
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April 04, 2022
AEIdeas

March Jobs Report Shows near Return to Pre-pandemic Levels — Except for Workers on the Sidelines of the Economy

By Matt Weidinger
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March 23, 2022
AEIdeas

Visualizing the 1.6 Billion Weeks of Unemployment Benefit Checks Paid During the Pandemic

By Matt Weidinger
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March 18, 2022
AEIdeas

Department of Labor Inspector General: At Least $163 Billion in Improper Pandemic Unemployment Benefits

By Matt Weidinger
Testimony
December 13, 2021
US Department of Labor

Comment Letter to Employee Benefits Security Administration, U.S. Department of Labor: Proposed Rule on Prudence and Loyalty in Selecting Plan Investments and Exercising Shareholder Rights

By Benjamin Zycher
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December 10, 2021
AEIdeas

Unemployment Insurance at a Crossroads: Tracing Program Design During and Beyond COVID-19

By Brent Orrell | Matt Weidinger | Mason M. Bishop | Amy Simon
Op-Ed
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The Wall Street Journal

Inflation Punishes the Unprotected

By Phil Gramm | Mike Solon
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AEIdeas

How Much Unemployment Benefits Fraud Is There, Really?

By Matt Weidinger
Op-Ed
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The Bulwark

There Are No Simple Answers for Our Labor Market Problems

By Brent Orrell
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May 14, 2021
AEIdeas

Are Choosy Workers Causing a Labor Market Stall-out?

By Brent Orrell
Op-Ed
May 04, 2021
RealClearPolicy

Reform This Workforce Law and Bring on State Policy Entrepreneurs

By Brent Orrell | Mason M. Bishop
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beyond the broken veteran
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AEIdeas

New Efforts to Serve Those Who Served

By Brent Orrell
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AEIdeas

Trade Adjustment Assistance: Putting Workers First

By Mason M. Bishop
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AEIdeas

Inspector General Report Finds $63 Billion in Unemployment Improper Payments — and That’s Likely an Understatement

By Matt Weidinger
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January 15, 2021
AEIdeas

December’s Jobs Report and Where We Go from Here

By Brent Orrell
Op-Ed
$100 bill exchange with background of financial charts
December 28, 2020
InsideSources

Why Have Federal Unemployment Benefits Cost so Much More Than Expected?

By Matt Weidinger
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People who lost their jobs wait in line to file for unemployment following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at an Arkansas Workforce Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas, U.S. April 6, 2020. REUTERS/Nick Oxford
December 01, 2020
AEIdeas

Government Accountability Office Report Highlights Flaws in the Counting of Unemployment Benefit Claimants

By Matt Weidinger