The numbers: New unemployment benefits fell to just over $ 1 million in late August, resuming a downward trend, perhaps signaling the resumption of a slow or painful recovery in the U.S. labor market. Initial unemployment claims, a rough measure of redundancies, were rejected by 98,000 to 1 million in …
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“People will die” as City Hall follows with a plan to lay off nearly 400 EMTs and paramedics, the union chief who represented those workers told The Post. Oren Barzilay, head of EMS Local 2507, said FDNY brass told him that 10 percent of the city’s 3,700 EMTs and paramedics …
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Has the widespread unemployment benefits discouraged many workers from returning to work? A big drop in people seeking or receiving benefits in the past two weeks after the end of a $ 600 federal grant suggests that the answer may be yes. Early unemployment fell to 963,000 in early August, …
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Dozens of state and local public health leaders were fired or fired during the coronavirus pandemic, according to an analysis by the Associated Press and the Kaiser Health News Service reported on Monday. Several health experts left the office after being harshly criticized, threatened with violence and in some cases …
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