Unemployment Insurance Tables and Figures
Tables and Figures in CRS Reports
Following is a list of tables and figures related to Unemployment Compensation that can be found in the CRS reports section of this chapter.
Unemployment Insurance: Programs and Benefits
RL33362: Unemployment Insurance: Programs and Benefits
Figure A-1. Unemployment Insurance: Available Unemployment Benefits
Table 1. State Unemployment Compensation Benefits Amounts, January 2011
Table 2. State Unemployment Taxes: Taxable Wage Base and Rates, January 2011
Table 3. Revenue and Expenditures Associated with Unemployment Compensation, FY2001-FY2011
Table B-1. Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program: Public Law, Benefits, Effective Dates, and Financing
RS22915: Temporary Extension of Unemployment Benefits: Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC08)
Figure A-1. Unemployment Insurance: Available Unemployment Benefits
Table 1. Summary of Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC08) Program: Public Law, Benefits, Effective Dates, and Financing
Table 2. Summary of EUC08 Program Authorization Lapses
R41777: Antipoverty Effects of Unemployment Insurance
Figure 1. Monthly and Annual Average Unemployment Rate
Figure 2. Median Duration of Unemployment among Unemployed Workers in Weeks,
January 1987 to February 2011
Figure 3. Unemployment Rate and an Alternative Measure of Underutilization (BLS U-6 Definition)
Figure 4. Percent of Unemployed Receiving Unemployment Benefits
Figure 5. Percentage of Unemployed Receiving Temporary (EUC, TEUC, or EUC08) Benefits or Extended Benefits
Figure 6. Pre- and Post-UI Benefit Poverty Rates of Persons, 1987-2009
Figure 7. Number of Persons Lifted Above Poverty as a Result of UI Benefit Receipt, 1987-2009
Figure 8. Pre- and Post-UI Benefit Poverty Rates of Persons in Families that Received UI Benefits, 1987-2009
Figure 9. Percent Reduction in the Poverty Rate as a Result of UI Benefit Receipt, Overall Poverty Rate and Poverty Rate for Persons in Families that Received UI Benefits, 1987 - 2009
Figure 10. UI Benefits: Aggregate Dollars and Dollars Reducing Poverty, 1987-2009
Figure 11. Share of Aggregate UI Benefits Going Toward Reducing Poverty, 1987-2009
Figure 12. Pre-Post UI Poverty Rates Among Unemployed Persons Who Received UI Benefits and Those Who Did Not, 1987-2009
Figure B-1. Persons Who Reported UI Benefit Receipt, by Labor Force Status: 2009
Figure B-2. Share of Unemployed and Underutilized Workers at Any Time During the Year Compared to Monthly and Annual Average Unemployment
Figure B-3. Expanded Definitions of Unemployment and Labor Underutilization, 1987-2009
Figure B-4. An Expanded Definition of Unemployed and Underutilized Workers, 1987-2009
Figure B-5. Unemployment Insurance Receipt Among Persons, by Selected Labor Force Status, 1987 - 2009
Figure C-1. UI Recipients and Aggregate UI Dollars CPS/ASEC Estimates as a Percent of Administrative Benchmarks 1987 to 2009
Table 1. General Description of Temporary Federal Unemployment Insurance Programs, 1987- 2010
RL34340: Extending Unemployment Compensation Benefits During Recessions
Figure 1. Economic Recessions, Percentage of Regular UC Beneficiaries to All Unemployed, and UC Benefit Exhaustees, January 1979-November 2010
Figure 2. Recessions, Changes in Unemployment Compared with the Same Month in Previous Year, Unemployment Rates, and Temporary Federal Benefit Availability,
January 1979-November 2010
Figure 3. Recessions, Changes in Regular UC Benefit Exhaustions Compared with the Same Month in Previous Year, and Unemployment Rates, January 1979-November 2010
Figure 4. Recessions, Changes in Long-Term Unemployment Compared with the Same Month in Previous Year, and Unemployment Rates, January 1979-November 2010
Table A-1. Summary of Extended Unemployment Compensation Programs
Table A-2. Details: Federal Supplemental Compensation (FSC) Benefits
Table A-3. Details: Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) Benefits of 1991
Table A-4. Details: Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC08) Benefits of 2008
Table A-5. Timing of Recessions, 12-Month Change of at Least One Million, and Extended Unemployment Benefits, 1990-2010
Table A-6. Funding Temporary Unemployment Programs
R41859: Unemployment Insurance: Consequences of Changes in State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Table 1. States with Unemployment Compensation (UC) Law Changes in 2011 That Decrease Benefit Duration
Table 2. Adjusted Maximum EUC08 and EB Benefit Duration Resulting from Changes to State Maximum UC Benefit Duration
Table 3. Extended Benefit (EB) Trigger Components Enacted by States
Unemployment Trust Fund and Financing
RS22077: Unemployment Compensation (UC) and the Unemployment Trust Fund (UTF): Funding UC Benefits
Figure 1. The Unemployment Trust Fund
RS22954: The Unemployment Trust Fund: State Insolvency and Federal Loans to States
Table 1. State Unemployment Trust Fund Accounts: Financial Information by State, 1st Quarter 2011
Table 2. Schedule of State Tax Credit Reduction and Net Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) Tax for July 2011 Onwards
RS22006: The Unemployment Trust Fund and Reed Act Distributions
Table 1. Reed Act Distributions
RS21356: Taxation of Unemployment Benefits
Table 1. Returns With Unemployment Benefits and Amount of UC Benefits, Tax Years 1998-2009
Table 2. Estimated Effect of Taxing Unemployment Compensation, by Income Class, 2005
Other Unemployment Benefits and Alternative Programs
R41253: The Self-Employment Assistance (SEA) Program
Table 1. States with SEA Programs
Table 2. Number of Recent Participants in the Self-Employment Assistance (SEA) Program, by State, 2000-2010
R40689: Compensated Work Sharing Arrangements (Short-Time Compensation) as an Alternative to Layoffs
Table 1. Short-Time Compensation (STC) and Regular Unemployment Insurance (UI) Beneficiaries, 1982 to 2010
Table 2. State Legislation and Short-Time Compensation (STC) First Payments as Percentage of Regular Unemployment Compensation First Payments
Table A-1. States with Short-Time Compensation Programs
RS22440: Unemployment Compensation (Insurance) and Military Service
Table 1. Unemployment Compensation Benefit Eligibility for Workers Who Voluntarily Quit Because of a Spousal Transfer
Additional Tables and Figures Related to Unemployment Insurance