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Advocates Urge Legislature to Help Half Million New Yorkers by Fixing Broken Unemployment System
Robin Hood FoundationDecember 18, 2020 GMT
New York’s Flawed Partial Unemployment Insurance Program Disproportionately Harms Women and Persons of Color and Threatens Economic Recovery
Coalition Calls of Passage of Legislation introduced by Assemblymember Stirpe & State Senator Ramos (A446/S5754) to fix the system and strengthen the economy.
NEW YORK, Dec. 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) With COVID-19 infections on the rise, a sluggish economic rebound, and critical provisions in the CARES Act set to expire in just two weeks, a coalition of leading advocacy groups and nonprofits including Robin Hood, the National Employment Law Project, and the Empire Justice Center today called on the New York State Legislature to avert stifling the state’s economic recovery and mitigate rising hardship for