Lockdowns and the coronavirus pandemic laid bare our inept and patchwork unemployment system. Iceland supported its citizens with 30 months of unemployment benefits while US workers barely received six months of benefits. Arelia Valdivia and Francisco Diez are here from the Center for Popular Democracy to explain why our current UI system desperately needs reform and how all workers, both employed and unemployed, can help fix it. Some highlights from The CPD’s Case for Unemployment Insurance Reform: 01:21 – Meet the Center for Popular Democracy 08:37 – The Sad State of UI Benefits for US Workers 12:49 – An Employer’s Perspective on UI 15:25 – The FIX UI Campaign The CPD’s FIX UI Campaign Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/multiemployerfunds)