Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) was founded in 1947 by Eleanor Roosevelt and other liberal luminaries in order to protect the legacy of her husband, the recently-deceased President Franklin Roosevelt, a legacy that included unemployment insurance (UI). That legacy was under attack by a rabidly conservative Republican Congressional majority recently swept into power by a wave election. Sound familiar? The point is that the struggle today is not a new battle, just a new stage in an ongoing one, one on which ADA has a unique historical perspective. National UI was belatedly (compared to...