How Unemployment Insurance Abroad Compares To The U.S.

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The number of Americans filing for unemployment insurance soared to 38.6 million this past week, even as some states and cities attempt to re-open their economies from Covid-19 lockdowns. Other hard-hit countries, like Spain and Germany, have a different way of handling unemployment insurance compared to the patchwork system in the United States. Here’s how the social safety net for workers in America compares to other systems around the world.

Correction (May 23, 2020): The title for Jeremy Pilaar misstates his current role. He’s a former fellow at the San Francisco Affirmative Ligation Project.

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How Unemployment Insurance Abroad Compares To The U.S. System

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  2. Just applying for unemployment for first time and didn't realize how antiquated and annoying the process can be. It got NO better with the pandemic ravaging the systems….I have complications too since I was laid off just after moving states and took a month to realize that I can't claim benefits in my new state…it should absolutely be a federally-run program!

  4. Hey everyone I have an urgent question. I’m supposed to compare the us and German unemployment benefit system in school and don’t understand how Americans technically gain 5 times what unemployed in Germany get. What is the reason none of the money in the us stays with the people? Thx in advance

  7. It comes across as though no one in society looks out for the employment seekers . It's a constant struggle . Why aren't young adults taught on how to correctly job hunt? It’s such central issue.

  9. Richest country in the world is a disgrace. I won't want to stay there even if you payed me. No damn way. At least in uk we're protected when things get bad but in America your on your own. My mom visited America in 2017 and she said its the worse place to ever be lolz because all they do is work work work no rest and because of the experience she had she never went back and America is expensive to leave in or even getting a job. She was so happy when she came back to UK and she felt privileged being a British and not American. Lolz

  12. 2:56 As a Chicagoan, I know that most people in Illinois, in the 1990's, needed 6 months to find another job after they were terminated One third of the adult (18+) work force had two jobs, 50% of all teenagers 15 and over worked at after-school jobs. The Chicago Sun-Times complained that all of these jobs were subsistence wage jobs…all of them. By the 2000's, terminated ex-employees in Illinois, needed…TWO years… to find another job. As a result food stamps, energy assistance and welfare exploded in Illinois. Author Barbara Ehrenreich wrote two expose books about the job market nightmare all over the country. By the 2008 meltdown, Illinoisans needed THREE years to find a job. As a result, early (62 years old) social security benefit applications in Illinois exploded from 500 thousand yearly to one million annually. Rent vouchers (for studio apartments only) exploded and Social Security supplemental benefits became higher ($450 a month) than regular benefits ($350 a month) so seniors could afford to rent out a one-bedroom apartment to avoid homelessness or the glorified closets known as studio apartments.

  13. More and more white Americans are homeless everyday why foreigners from other countries come to our country and collect unemployment America needs to wake up end end giving away the country for free two people who hate our country

  17. funny how germany is a good example on how to deal with the crisis and at the same time germans think about on how bad it is managed there. comparisons with germany aren't really fair tho, because is by far the powerhouse in europe keeping everything running, so all the wealth and safety is concentrated there

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  24. USA looks more and more of a made up place from where I am in Europe. Many great people from the USA but its amazing how some politicians seem to think unemployment benefits, healthcare etc is not a right.

  26. Huge people in the world are unemployment right now specially developing and under developing country & they have not that much money to deal with their life comfortably that is clearly shown us as a world social problem & ultimately they are involving lots of crime and criminality as well. So need to think all the Governments & non governmental organisations for that kind of people, financially helping them & recruit them in the job or other site considering their ability & talent.

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  35. Incorrect. Unemployment premiums/taxes are not taken out of each employEE paycheck. They are paid by the employER at the time the payroll check is issued to the employee.

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