Congressional unemployment settlement won’t stop second layoff crisis
People wait in line as SF-Marin Food Bank delivers 1,600 bags of food in San Francisco on April 20, 2020. Work permits and layoffs created by coronavirus shelter orders are leading thousands of people to seek assistance. food. San Francisco Chronicle | Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images With brief federal …
Read More »The $ 600 unemployment checks are ending. Some people never got them
People who lost their jobs wait in line to apply for unemployment benefits, after an outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Arkansas Workforce Center in Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA. , April 6, 2020. Nick Oxford | Stock Photo | REUTERS In mid-March, Erin Madden was fired from her job …
Read More »Elon Musk chose Texas ‘freedoms’ for new Tesla factory
Gov. Greg Abbott said Friday that Elon Musk decided to build the next American Tesla factory in Texas, in part because the state offers more “freedom” than places like California. “He wanted to enter a state where he had more freedom where he could expand in the way he wanted …
Read More »The unemployment situation is very, very bad.
In the first week of July, nearly 1.5 million Americans were receiving unemployment benefits from the little-known Emergency Compensation and Short-Term Emergency Compensation programs. The state of play: For the week ending April 11, the first week for which program data is available, the PEUC and STC programs counted just …
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