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A broken safety net

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2008-08-28
| El Diario NY

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If New York legislators are interested in heading off a snowballing problem, they should modernize the state employment insurance system.

A report released today by the Fiscal Policy Institute shows that 25 counties in New York State, including Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester, are experiencing at least 20 percent increases in the number of unemployed persons.

In New York City, unemployment increases were in the low single digits. But unemployment claims are beginning to rise faster in the city than the rest of the state, the Institute reports.

Communities already at a disadvantage are feeling more of this pain. Unemployment and under-employment affects Hispanics and blacks at significantly higher rates than whites. That’s compounded by an outdated and inadequate employment insurance system.

The point of unemployment insurance is to not only help families but also help stabilize the economy when there is increased joblessness. But the federal government’s recent extension of unemployment benefits is not the boost New York could have used because the state’s benefits have not kept pace with wages or inflation. For example, New York falls far below states like New Jersey in what it allows workers to collect on a weekly basis. That maximum—$405—has remained the same since the year 2000.

Assemblywoman Susan John introduced a bill earlier this year that would phase in an increase in the maximum weekly benefit, expand eligibility for part-time workers—who are 21 percent of the state’s workforce—and introduce others updates.

By not acting on this bill, the legislature will fail to put the brakes on diminishing incomes for families who are already struggling with food inflation, rising rents and fuel costs. With state races in the fall, New Yorkers should use the power of their vote to move this bill in Albany.

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