According to a recent BusinessWeek article, just 37% of jobless U.S. workers are covered by unemployment insurance, down from 42% during the 1981-1982 recession. The safety net designed to help the unemployed get by until they can find more work is not quite as strong as it used to be. The mixture of rising layoffs, [...]
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