Punching In: New Jobless Aid Grants Aim to End Awareness ‘Gap’

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Rebecca Rainey: The U.S. Department of Labor wants states to compete for funding to test new methods of increasing workforce awareness of jobless-aid benefits, part of a larger effort to bolster the unemployment insurance safety net.

The funding—$15 million to be divided evenly among five states that offer the best ideas—stems from the department’s ongoing rollout of $2 billion Congress allocated to the DOL under the American Rescue Plan (Public Law 117-2), nearly a year after its passage.

The DOL’s Employment and ...