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Mar 17, 2021 · To receive assistance, households will have to meet several conditions, according to a congressional aide: Household income (for 2020) cannot exceed more than 80 percent of the area median...
Jul 31, 2020 · WASHINGTON — The White House and Congress hurtled over an economic and political cliff on Friday, failing to reach agreement to extend $600-per-week federal jobless aid payments for millions of...
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Sep 6, 2021 · Nearly 18 months after Congress came to the rescue of jobless Americans, its historic expansion of the nation’s unemployment benefits system expired nationwide this weekend. Lawmakers, who ...
Jul 20, 2023 · U.S. applications for jobless claims fell by 9,000 to 228,000 for the week ending July 15, from 237,000 previous week, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The four-week moving average of claims, which evens out some of the weekly volatility, fell by 9,250 to 237,500.
Mar 12, 2021 · unemployment rate of 39.3% in April 2020, before declining to 13.5% in February 2021. While rates for service industries remain elevated, other industries with loose attachment to in-person
Nov 6, 2020 · unemployment rate rose quickly in March 2020, and by April 2020 it had greatly surpassed its previous peaks observed during and just after the Great Recession. This spike in unemployment
Jun 15, 2021 · The labor force participation rate was 61.6% in May 2021, 1.8 percentage points below the level in January 2020, before the pandemic and the economic recession. Nonfarm payrolls shed 22.1 million jobs between January 2020 and April 2020, with employment declining to 86% of its pre-recession level.
