Tag: Unemployment

Mnuchin says record 3.3 million unemployment claims last week ‘right now are not relevant’

Anthony Leonardi · March 26, 2020 7:18 pm

Medical workers wearing personal protective equipment wheel bodies to a refrigerated trailer serving as a makeshift morgue at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Monday, April 6, 2020, in New York. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.

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Unprecedented jobless claims prove coronavirus is a black swan, not a normal depression

Tiana Lowe Doescher · March 26, 2020 3:50 pm

New jobless claims soar to record 3.3 million as coronavirus wreaks havoc on economy

Jay Heflin · March 26, 2020 12:30 pm

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., right, speaks with Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., as Attorney General nominee William Barr testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019.

‘A massive drafting error’: GOP senators warn coronavirus relief bill could incentivize mass layoffs

John Gage · March 25, 2020 6:21 pm

‘Unemployment compensation on steroids’: Relief package will boost benefits by $600 a week

Nihal Krishan · March 25, 2020 1:39 pm

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Democrats infect coronavirus relief bill with poison

Mattie Duppler · March 23, 2020 4:36 pm

Rand Paul: Government checks shouldn’t go to people like me

Sen. Rand Paul · March 22, 2020 5:54 pm

Senate Majority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., joined by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., second from right, and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, speaks to members of the media following a Senate policy luncheon, Tuesday, April 30, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Democrats win expanded unemployment insurance as Congress races to pass economic relief bill

Susan Ferrechio · March 21, 2020 8:07 pm

Dreams turn into real professional opportunities for the millions of people who work in America's hotel and lodging industry. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Industry group warns that nearly half of all hotel employees will be laid off: 4.4 million

Nihal Krishan · March 20, 2020 10:58 pm

Virginia unemployment filings doubling every day from coronavirus impact

Virginia unemployment filings doubling every day from coronavirus impact

Washington Examiner · March 20, 2020 10:00 pm

New York facing ‘unprecedented increase’ in unemployment claims amid coronavirus pandemic

Tim Pearce · March 20, 2020 7:14 pm

President Donald Trump listens to a question from a reporter as he speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Monday, April 6, 2020, in Washington.

Trump administration asks states to keep quiet about unemployment numbers

John Gage · March 20, 2020 1:43 am