David Balducchi

Jul 17, 2024 | tcf.org | Michele Evermore |David Balducchi |Julie Kashen |Lea Woods

In response to the historic challenges that the nation’s unemployment insurance (UI) system faced in 2020 during the pandemic, the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) assembled a bipartisan task force of public and private sector experts—the Task Force on Unemployment Insurance—to examine how the program responded to the massive surge of unemployed workers and to discuss ways to build a more robust program.

Mar 27, 2024 | tcf.org | Steven Greenhouse |David Balducchi |Michele Evermore |Conor Williams

One of the most important features of unemployment insurance UI is the requirement in the Social Security Act that the program must be administered so that benefits can “be reasonably calculated to insure full payment of unemployment compensation when due.” The question of what it means for benefits to be paid “when due” came to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1971, and the decision in that case set a standard of paying benefits within a couple of weeks.

Feb 28, 2024 | tcf.org | David Balducchi |Michele Evermore |Kings Floyd |Lea Woods

TCF senior fellow Michele Evermore provided testimony to the Connecticut General Assembly at a hearing on February 22, 2024, regarding HB 5164: An Act Concerning Unemployment for Striking Workers. Her testimony, which you can read below, argues that providing striking workers with unemployment insurance benefits serves the underlying principles of the program, helping to mitigate harm to families and regional communities and economies alike.

Oct 19, 2023 | tcf.org | Laura Haltzel |Michele Evermore |Leanna Lee |David Balducchi

Social Security is a vital social insurance program that provides benefits to replace the lost earnings of disabled or retired workers and their survivors. As of June 30, 2023, nearly 67 million individuals receive monthly benefits. Without Social Security, almost 22 million more individuals would be in poverty. According to the 2023 Social Security Trustees Report, Social Security is facing a financial shortfall and is projected to be unable to pay full retirement and survivor benefits in 2033.

Oct 18, 2023 | tcf.org | Laura Haltzel |Thomas Waldrop |Michele Evermore |David Balducchi

Fiscal commissions have, since the 1980s, been seen as a way for Congress and presidential administrations to outsource discussing and solving the most difficult political problems to a process that avoids democratic debate and legislative safeguards.