The Two-Thirds Economic Solution: Unemployment Insurance Programs.
The shifts towards a "two-thirds" economic solution, pursued in many Western countries that have had extensive welfare state infrastructures, brings into question the precise workings of unemployment insurance programs. In Canada, the trend towards neo-liberal economic planning and the renewed desire to rationalize government expenditures while reducing deficits has produced a varied critique of Unemployment Insurance as it has been known. As this discussion emphasizes, UI has also served the aims of a capitalist economy by encouraging certain kinds of practices in the workforce that may not be immediately recognized. 9.5 pgs. 12 f/c. 7b.
