The Funding Crisis in State Unemployment Insurance

Wayne Vroman

Documents UI funding problems and attempts by states to solve them.

Table of Contents
  1. The Funding Problem
    • Trust Fund Balances and Loans to State UI Programs
    • Origins of the Funding Problem
    • Benefit Payments Since 1970
  2. Debtor State Experiences
    • Developments in 10 Debtor States
    • Debtor State Comparisons
  3. Conditions of Debt Avoidance
    • Initial Trust Fund Balances and Effective Tax Rate Increases
    • Active Policies and Debt Avoidance
    • Tax Base Indexing
    • Economic Growth and Trust Fund Balances
  4. Conclusions

199 pp. 1986
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