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Laid-off workers are scoring early wins in lawsuits against GOP governors attempting to cut off federal jobless aid
Jobless workers in Indiana and Maryland temporarily won back federal unemployment - but the victori…
Juliana Kaplan,Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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AOC and other progressives open the door to fighting Biden on renewing federal unemployment benefits
Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Cori Bush told Insider they want to extend jobless aid. But it would…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Biden and Congress are setting 'a 5-alarm fire' by letting federal unemployment benefits expire in a week as Delta surges, an expert says
Federal jobless aid expires in a week. Congress isn't renewing it. "A lot of people will be harmed …
Joseph Zeballos-Roig,Juliana Kaplan
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Fox News' Laura Ingraham suggests cutting off federal unemployment benefits to push people back to work: 'Hunger is a pretty powerful thing'
Several analyses indicate that cutting off jobless aid hasn't led to job growth in many GOP-led sta…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Sen. Joe Manchin signals he won't back renewal of federal jobless aid for gig workers and long-term unemployed past Labor Day
"I'm done with extensions," he told Insider. "The economy is coming back." His opposition could tor…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Half of all US states are scrapping stimulus-era jobless benefits, cutting off 4 million workers from federal aid
GOP states are pulling the plug on federal unemployment benefits in weeks. One top Democrat said he…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig,Juliana Kaplan
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Biden gambled that cutting off federal jobless aid would drive people back to work. The September jobs report blew a hole through that idea.
Biden let millions of Americans lose unemployment benefits in September after allowing 26 states to…
Juliana Kaplan,Andy Kiersz,Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Senate Democrats want to spend $3 billion to fix state unemployment systems and make it easier to collect jobless checks
During the pandemic, aging unemployment systems broke down across the country, leaving some workers…
Juliana Kaplan,Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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The White House says Biden isn't pushing Congress to renew federal jobless aid because the economy is rebounding
"I think he made a decision on where things stand in our economic recovery at this point in time," …
Joseph Zeballos-Roig,Juliana Kaplan
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The July jobs report was a smashing success, but don't cut short all stimulus efforts while Delta is raging, former top Obama economist says
Jason Furman, who advised President Barack Obama, told Insider he favors extending unemployment aid…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Today is the last day that many unemployed workers can claim federal jobless aid - and states probably won't be renewing them
Congress and President Biden have shown no interest in renewing the jobless stimulus benefits. Mill…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig,Juliana Kaplan
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Unemployment claims may never go back to 'normal.' Here's why that's a good thing.
Unemployment-benefit filings are still double prepandemic levels. The RAND economist Kathryn Anne E…
Juliana Kaplan,Ben Winck
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Trump just cost jobless workers one week of federal unemployment assistance after he failed to sign the relief bill by midnight on Saturday
The president's push for $2,000 stimulus checks has threatened the federal unemployment benefits in…
Kelsey Vlamis,Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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US weekly jobless claims hit 751,000, surpassing economist forecasts as labor-market recovery slows
Continuing claims, which track Americans receiving unemployment benefits, fell to 7.3 million for t…
Ben Winck
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Boosted unemployment benefits supported the labor market better than expected, University of Chicago study says
Extra unemployment payments during the pandemic boosted consumer spending while also keeping more A…
Ben Winck
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Four states cut off federal unemployment benefits Saturday - and the White House is very unlikely to step in and prevent the loss of stimulus jobless aid
The cuts in Mississippi, Missouri, Alaska, and Iowa yanks aid from 340,000 workers. More GOP states…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Just 58% of unemployment checks arrived on time, leaving Americans waiting for cash as the pandemic left them jobless
A new report from Bloomberg found that nearly half of unemployed Americans found themselves receivi…
Juliana Kaplan
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Meet a jobless Oklahoman caught in the middle of a battle over unemployment benefits: 'The panic level is very high.'
"One of the promises that Biden made was we are going to stand as one. And I think it's time to liv…
Juliana Kaplan
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Jobless Oklahomans just won back unemployment benefits - at least the 3rd GOP-governed state where that's happened
Oklahoma is the latest state where workers have successfully temporarily won back federal benefits.…
Juliana Kaplan
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Mitch McConnell trashed Democrats for holding up aid to jobless Americans - but the GOP stimulus plan contains zero dollars in extra federal unemployment benefits
McConnell introduced a proposal with no extra federal unemployment benefits, when he previously bac…