Category: Navigating the Safety Net

  • Unemployment Insurance in DC: From Policy to Practice

    Unemployment Insurance in DC: From Policy to Practice

    Part 1 of the series: Navigating the Safety Net I’ve spent most of my career inside large, complex systems—working in foreign assistance, public sector programs, and institutions designed to respond to crisis. I understood, intellectually, how safety nets worked. What I didn’t fully grasp—until it happened to me—was how destabilizing it feels when your own…