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Unemployment Is Nearing Great Depression Levels. Here's How The Eras Are Similar — And Different
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The unemployment rate is at its highest since the Great Depression. The current situation differs from that of the early... Read more
Weekly Jobless Claims Total 2.981 Million, Bringing Coronavirus Tally To 36.5 Million
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The total 2.981 million new claims for unemployment insurance brought the coronavirus crisis count to nearly 36.5 millio... Read more
New York Has Paid $7.4 Billion In Unemployment Claims To Roughly 1.7 Million Residents, Officials Say
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Roughly 1.8 million residents struggling with unemployment due to the coronavirus pandemic have filed claims, roughly si... Read more
US Risking A Second Wave And A Depression, Mark Zandi Warns
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Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics' worries businesses may reopen too soon and create another spike in coronavirus cases. Read more
Fed's James Bullard Says The Jobs Report On Friday Will Be One Of The Worst Ever
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Bullard's comments came minutes before ADP reported that private payrolls shed more than 20 million jobs in April amid c... Read more
US Private Payrolls Drop By 20.2 Million In April, The Worst Job Loss In The History Of ADP Report
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Private payrolls hemorrhaged more than 20 million jobs in April as companies sliced workers amid a shutdown that took mo... Read more
April's Jobs Report Showing Millions Out Of Work Looms Large In The Week Ahead
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In the week ahead, the April jobs report is expected to show the highest unemployment since 1939. Read more
US Weekly Jobless Claims Hit 3.84 Million, Topping 30 Million Over The Last 6 Weeks
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Jobless claims for the week ended April 25 came in at the lowest level in a month but bring the rolling six-week total t... Read more
These 25 States Are Already Paying Gig Workers And Self-employed Americans Unemployment
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Half of states are currently paying out unemployment compensation under the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, wh... Read more
GOP's Kevin Brady: Punishing Businesses With Higher Taxes Would Hurt 'blue-collar' Workers
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"I don't think making us less competitive, less attractive, and taking more of what people earn will ultimately be the a... Read more
Some Gig Workers Are Getting $0 In Unemployment Benefits
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Gig workers and other self-employed individuals are trying to make sense of yet another wrinkle in a roundabout process ... Read more
The US Economy Has Wiped Out All The Job Gains Since The Great Recession
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The jobless claims report showed that it took only five weeks for the U.S. economy to erase all the job gains since the ... Read more
Another 4.3 Million Workers Expected To Have Filed Unemployment Claims
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About 4.3 million workers are expected to have filed unemployment claims last week, bringing virus-related layoffs to ov... Read more
ICE Cold: Microsoft's GitHub Wrings Hands Over US Prez's Trump Immigration Ban Plan
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Yeah, about that contract you signed with Immigration and Customs Enforcement... Microsoft-owned code shack, GitHub, wr... Read more
Weekly Jobless Claims Hit 5.245 Million, Raising Monthly Loss To 22 Million Due To Coronavirus
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The most recent count represented a drop from the previous two weeks but still showed that the damage to the U.S. labor ... Read more
The US Economy Has Erased Nearly All The Job Gains Since The Great Recession
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The jobless claims report showed that it took only four weeks for the U.S. economy to erase all the job gains in the las... Read more
America's 'clean Energy' Workforce Projected To Fall By 15% In Months Ahead
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Last month saw over 106,000 people working in clean energy roles lose their jobs. Read more
Borrower Requests For Government's Coronavirus Mortgage Bailout Jump 78% In One Week
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As unemployment surges and more Americans struggle to make ends meet, more homeowners are applying for the government's ... Read more
US Weekly Jobless Claims Jump By 6.6 Million And We've Now Lost 10% Of Workforce In Three Weeks
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That brings the total claims over the past three weeks to more than 16 million. Read more
5 Million More Unemployment Claims Expected, But Layoffs Are Now Broader And Could Be More Permanent
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The new claims for weekly unemployment benefits could bring the number of Americans filing to more than 15 million in th... Read more