States have been processing roughly 1 million new unemployment applications each week since mid-March. The number of workers applying for unemployment benefits jumped to 1.1 million last week, the Labor Department reported Thursday, the first time in two weeks that new claims have gone up. States have been processing roughly 1 million new unemployment applications …
The number of workers filing jobless claims last week fell to 963,000. New unemployment claims fell last week to 963,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday, the first time in months the figure has been less than 1 million. An additional 488,622 laid-off workers filed for jobless aid under the new pandemic unemployment assistance program, created …
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The president’s order depends on already cash-poor states being able to create and implement a new system and fund one-fourth of the aid. Tens of millions of jobless Americans are unlikely to see their weekly unemployment checks grow anytime soon — despite President Donald Trump’s executive action promising an extra $400 a week. The president’s …
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Congress appears poised to dramatically reduce a federal program that has been providing an extra $600 per week for jobless workers since the spring. How Congress decides to help the tens of millions of unemployed workers during the pandemic could determine whether the stark gap between America’s rich and poor will continue to widen amid …
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Laid off workers would see a lapse in the additional benefits — reducing their weekly income by more than two-thirds in many states. Congress will likely allow the $600-a-week boost in unemployment benefits to expire at the end of this month if lawmakers follow Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s proposed timeline for the next round …
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The numbers suggest that some Americans are still being pushed out of work nearly three months into the pandemic. Workers filed another 1.5 million claims for jobless benefits last week, the Labor Department reported, suggesting that some Americans are still being pushed out of work nearly three months into the pandemic. Additionally, nearly 706,000 people …
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The coronavirus pandemic has forced roughly 42.6 million workers onto jobless rolls in just 11 weeks. U.S. workers filed another 1.9 million new claims for unemployment benefits last week, the Department of Labor reported. The coronavirus pandemic has forced roughly 42.6 million workers onto jobless rolls in just 11 weeks. Another 623,000 people applied for …
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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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This morning Meteor Blades reported that Jobless benefits claims drop again, but numbers could be skewed by holiday closures of state offices, including this sad news for those whose base unemployment payments have been used up: Come Saturday, if the president and congressional leaders do not come to agreement on fiscal matters, some 2.1 million people will …
More than 1 million long-term unemployed workers a month will lose their unemployment benefits—the weekly check that helps keep a roof over their families’ heads and food on the table—if Congress doesn’t act by Nov. 30. That’s the date the extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits program expires. But Congress does not return to work until Nov. 15 …
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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.
