WASHINGTON—The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell slightly last week to 787,000, a historically high number that points to a weak job market held back by the viral pandemic. Thursday’s figure from the Labor Department (pdf), a slight decline from the previous week, shows that even with the pandemic recession in its 10th month,…
Handful of States Begin Paying Out Extra $300 Weekly Jobless Benefit
Around a dozen states have begun paying out the extra $300 per week in unemployment benefits that are part of the recently enacted COVID-19 relief bill, with most states poised to join them by mid-January. Jobless Americans in Arizona, California, Delaware, Idaho, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia can…
Unemployment Payments Likely Won’t Lapse Despite Trump Delay in Signing Bill: Labor
Millions of unemployed Americans will probably not miss benefits, the Department of Labor said Tuesday. Two key programs, the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation, lapsed on Saturday after President Donald Trump failed to sign the $900 billion COVID-19 relief package that included extensions for the programs. Trump signed the bill on Sunday. Lawmakers…
Orange County Unemployment Hits 9-Month Low
Orange County’s unemployment rate in November fell to 6.4 percent—the lowest it’s been since March, according to the California Employment Development Department (EDD). The county gained 16,500 jobs in November, according to the EDD report. They were mostly in the leisure and hospitality sector, which experienced the biggest loss during the COVID-19 pandemic. About 9,800…
Trump Doubles Down on Sending $2,000 Stimulus Checks to Struggling Americans
President Donald Trump insisted that he want to send $2,000 stimulus checks to Americans who are influenced by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. “I simply want to get our great people $2,000, rather than the measly $600 that is now in the bill. Also, stop the billions of dollars in ‘pork,’” he wrote in…
US Layoffs Remain Elevated As 803,000 Seek Jobless Aid
WASHINGTON—The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell by 89,000 last week to a still-elevated 803,000, evidence that the job market remains under stress nine months after the coronavirus outbreak sent the U.S. economy into recession and caused millions of layoffs. The latest figure, released Wednesday by the Labor Department, shows that many employers are…
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