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unemployment insurance

NOUN
unemployment benefit
Synonyms


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Other signs of weakness in China’s labor market include the growing gig-work economy and an uptick in spending on unemployment insurance, according to Xiangrong Yu, Citigroup’s chief China economist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

Another example is federal unemployment insurance, which was adopted in the 1935 Social Security Act and significantly expanded over the ensuing decades.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

Urssaf is an independent body that collects social charges from both companies and employees to fund France's state-run retirement accounts, unemployment insurance and medical coverage.

From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026

They note that weekly claims for state unemployment insurance, a sign of layoffs in the economy, have stayed remarkably low.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 6, 2025

He was a proud and independent man who was opposed to unemployment insurance and never hesitated to whine, whimper, wheedle, and extort for as much as he could get from whomever he could.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller




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