The experience of job loss and re-employment typically focuses on the unemployed population, those who experience a job separation and are actively seeking work. However, a significant share of people who lose their jobs are not captured in the unemployed population, as they are not actively seeking work. Additionally, the share of people considered outside […]
This report from the Project for Middle Class Renewal presents the first analysis of Illinois’s Workshare program using cross-sectional actual claimant data from the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES), covering the period from late 2020 to April 2024. It assesses the potential impact of Workshare participation on job retention, using national data from the […]
The United States is currently facing a tight labor market, and Illinois is not immune. As of July 2022, there were 469,000 job openings in the state, or 1.6 per unemployed resident. At the same time, as of July 2022, total non-farm employment in Illinois was still down by about 80,500 workers (-1 percent) compared […]
Background: Unemployment, underemployment, and the quality of work are nationaloccupational health risk factors that drive critical national problems; however, to date, there havebeen no systematic efforts to document the public health impact of this situation. Methods: Anenvironmental scan was conducted to explore the root causes and health impacts of underemployment and unemployment and highlight multilevel […]
The City of Chicago is experiencing extremely high rates of African-American unemployment compared to the rest of the nation. This report, conducted by researchers at the Illinois Economic Policy Institute and the Project for Middle Class Renewal at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, seeks to understand the causes of high African-American unemployment in Chicago […]
The Employment of Illinois Workers on Public Works Act, 30 ILCS 570/0.01 et seq. (Illinois Preference Act), also known as the “Preference to Illinois Citizens Act”, requires contractors to use at least 90 percent Illinois laborers on all public works projects that receive State funds or funds administered by the State during a period of […]