Help workers move between jobs by offering wage insurance and portable health coverage.

To many, using wage insurance to support free trade would simply add insult to injury.

Congress is now examining whether wage insurance should be expanded to a national program and added to existing aid for the unemployed.

Given the nation's limited budget resources, it would be very difficult to incorporate wage insurance into the social safety net without cannibalizing other programs.

First, traditional unemployment insurance must be improved before wage insurance is expanded.

On the positive side, wage insurance could be a pragmatic response to the downward pressure on wages from globalization.

Ideally, the nation would be able to provide unemployment insurance, retraining and wage insurance.

The wage insurance would make up some of the lost pay during the first two years in the new job.

Middle-class families are facing many economic anxieties, and wage insurance can help address some of those concerns.

The wage insurance would cushion the cost of lower wages in the new job for workers age 45 and older.