Andrew Stettner

3 weeks ago | tcf.org | Gayle Goldin |Laura Gutierrez |Laura Gutiérrez |Andrew Stettner |Steven Greenhouse

IntroductionSince taking office, President Donald Trump’s administration—in an initiative led by Elon Musk—has conducted mass firings at federal agencies. Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have indiscriminately and illegally fired whole classes of workers without cause or explanation, including thousands of veterans and workers with disabilities.

2 months ago | tcf.org | Steven Greenhouse |Emily McGrath |Michelle Burris |Andrew Stettner

On February 18, President Trump issued an executive order purporting to assume control over independent administrative agencies, including those that hear and decide individual cases involving workers’ rights and protections, such as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Independent agencies were carefully designed by Congress—decades ago—to ensure that they can act in accordance with the law, unaffected by political influence or presidential favoritism.

2 months ago | tcf.org | Emily McGrath |Michelle Burris |Andrew Stettner |Michele Evermore

As a presidential candidate last fall, Donald Trump repeatedly promised to battle for U.S. workers, but ever since he returned to the White House, he has taken a surprisingly large number of anti-worker actions, labor experts say. Some of those actions, among them hobbling the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), will help Trump’s billionaire business friends, most notably Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.

Jan 5, 2024 | blog.dol.gov | Andrew Stettner

Unemployment insurance benefits supported over 53 million workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, reducing the impacts of job loss, returning an estimated $880 billion to the economy, and softening what could have been a massive labor market crisis. But the pandemic exposed shortcomings in the unemployment insurance program. State agencies struggled to handle the unprecedented surge in claims and creation of new unemployment programs.

Oct 16, 2023 | tcf.org | Michele Evermore |Laura Gutierrez |Laura Gutiérrez |Andrew Stettner |Rebecca Vallas

Since the late 1930s, unemployment insurance (UI) has been the nation’s first line of defense against income loss from joblessness. The program provides a temporary replacement for a portion of lost earnings for individuals involuntarily unemployed. During economic hard times, UI has been a reliable macroeconomic stabilizer to bolster commercial recovery by injecting funds into local markets.