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How to Save the Restaurant Workforce From Being Casualties of The Covid-19 Crisis

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As the Covid-19 pandemic has swept through cities across the country, restaurants have been forced to shut down indefinitely—or slashed their workforces and reduced their operations to threadbare delivery and take-out only services.  Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage, an advocacy group for restaurant workers and other tipped service employees (including Uber and Doordash drivers, …

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Another 2.1 million seek new jobless benefits. Pandemic Recession will stick it to millennials

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The Department of Labor reported Thursday that yet another2.1 million Americans, on a seasonally adjusted basis, applied for initial state benefits in the week that ended May 23. Counting these new applications makes for a total of 40.5 million workers who have filed for initial benefits over the past 10 weeks. Add in the millions of Americans who are receiving benefits …

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2.1 million new unemployment claims filed last week, as workers still struggle to get benefits

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The ten-week total for claims reached 40.8 million, suggesting about a quarter of the workforce has lost jobs during the coronavirus pandemic. Workers filed 2.1 million new unemployment claims last week, the Department of Labor reported, suggesting about a quarter of the workforce is seeking jobless aid to weather the economic crisis caused by the …

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We need strong policy now to avert a depression, this week in the war on workers

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We know that unemployment is sky-high, but that’s not the end of the story. The Economic Policy Institute’s Heidi Shierholz sounds a warning that, if lawmakers don’t act, we’re looking at a depression. “If the federal government provides sufficient aid during this crisis so that people’s income doesn’t drop dramatically (even if they have been unable to …

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America’s economic pain arrives on K Street

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Layoffs are happening, and a survey of trade groups shows revenue is down sharply at many of them. Restaurants, hotels and tourism businesses are getting socked. Now their Washington lobbyists are, too. K Street is in cutback mode: The International Franchise Association, the U.S. Travel Association and the National Rifle Association have all laid off staffers …

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Trump expected to broaden foreign worker bans

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The president has already barred many foreign workers during the coronavirus pandemic, but he is facing pressure from conservatives to go further. President Donald Trump is expected to extend and expand restrictions on foreign workers coming into the United States during the coronavirus pandemic, aiming to appease a frustrated political base as Americans try to …

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California lawmakers blast ‘atrocious’ UI system overloaded with 4.9M claims

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SACRAMENTO — California state lawmakers unleashed their frustrations about the state’s unemployment system Thursday, demanding answers from an agency director about the problems their jobless constituents have endured trying to access the financial lifeline during the pandemic.  “We’ve never heard the type of suffering people are experiencing right now,” said Assemblyman David Chiu (D-San Francisco). …

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Reopening reality check: Georgia’s jobs aren’t flooding back

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A month after easing lockdown restrictions, the state is still seeing a steady stream of unemployment claims, economic data shows. Georgia’s early move to start easing stay-at-home restrictions nearly a month ago has done little to stem the state’s flood of unemployment claims — illustrating how hard it is to bring jobs back while consumers …

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Madeline Messa

Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.

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