ADVISORY/Experts Available To Discuss 2 Million People Estimated To Use Up Unemployment Benefits.Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE) TOPIC: The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities released a study claiming almost 2 million people will use their entire unemployment benefits from January to June of this year, according to an article by The Associated Press. Congress will not approve another extension of unemployment benefits for those who run out of state aid. An extension of unemployment benefits would cost the government almost $1 billion per month. There is currently $20 billion in the unemployment trust fund. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story: Professor Magnus Lofstrom, of the University of Texas at Dallas History The university was originally started as a research arm of Texas Instruments as the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest in 1961. The institute (by then renamed the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies) which at the time was located at Southern Methodist , School of Social Sciences, is an assistant professor of economics and political economy. He is a labor economist with an emphasis on studying policy relevant issues applying econometric tools. Some of Professor Lofstrom's specific research interests include immigration, self-employment, welfare, earnings inequality and education. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, San Diego UCSD is consistently ranked among the top ten public universities for undergraduate education in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.[3] It is a Public Ivy. [1] For graduate studies, most of UCSD's Ph.D. in 1999. Prior to joining the faculty at UTD, he served as a researcher and taught at the Institute for the Study of Labor The Institute for the Study of Labor is a private, independent economic research institute. It was founded under the legal form of a limited liability company. Its German name is Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit hence the abbreviation IZA. (IZA IZA International Zeolite Association IZA Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (Institute for the Study of Labor) IZA International Zinc Association ) at the University of Bonn The University of Bonn (German: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, Germany. Founded in 1818 the University of Bonn is nowadays one of the largest universities in Germany. and at the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). , Irvine. 972-883-4763 Professor Robert Nakosteen, of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, has published research focused on the microeconometrics of labor markets, especially where censoring or truncation is a sampling issue. He teaches courses in the microeconomics microeconomics Study of the economic behaviour of individual consumers, firms, and industries and the distribution of total production and income among them. It considers individuals both as suppliers of land, labour, and capital and as the ultimate consumers of the final , statistics/econometrics, and business forecasting. He also served as the director of Economic Forecasting and Analysis at the Tennessee Valley Authority Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), independent U.S. government corporate agency, created in 1933 by act of Congress; it is responsible for the integrated development of the Tennessee River basin. , the largest producer of electric power in the Western Hemisphere. 413-545-5687 Professor Michael W. Brandl, of the University of Texas, Austin, Department of Finance, is an expert regarding economic growth issues as well as empirical international comparisons of labor market activity and their impact on economic growth. 512-232-3355 512-471-3434 (University PR Phone) ExpertSource cannot guarantee the immediate availability of these experts or their familiarity with this specific issue. ExpertSource provides academic and industry experts to the media at no charge. Journalists are encouraged to submit queries to ExpertSource when seeking experts on specific subjects. An online registration form is available at http://www.businesswire.com/. |
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