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On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO) criticized the Department of Justice for refusing to participate in the Ways and Means Committee’s hearing into the COVID relief

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As Americans suffer through record-high inflation with rising costs for groceries, gasoline, and public utilities, sanctuary states are transferring millions in United States tax dollars to illegal aliens via unemployment benefits, a new investigation reveals.

A German state agency has said that it will likely soon be providing over 400,000 more Ukrainian migrants with unemployment benefits over the next few weeks.

The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits dipped to 326,000 in the week ended October 2, a decline of 38,000 from the previous week.

The Danish government has proposed making migrants work at least 37 hours a week in order for them to qualify to receive state cash benefits.

Economists had forecast 345,000 new claims.

Voters in battleground districts believe that the generous unemployment benefits are the reason there is a hindering economic recovery and labor market, according to a recent poll authorized by the American Action Network to show to the House Republican leadership this week.

MANCHESTER New Hampshire – Republican energy is gearing up in New Hampshire to create conservative change amid Democrat inflation and excessive spending. 

The generous unemployment benefits in the United States likely have prevented over seven million people from accepting a job offer, based on data from a recent Morning Consult poll.

On Friday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Labor Secretary Marty Walsh said it’s not time to end the enhanced federal unemployment benefits, and that for some of the people out of work, “their work is gone. Their restaurants are gone. Their industry they

During an interview aired on Thursday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Closing Bell,” Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said that it’s difficult to tell if generous unemployment benefits are hurting labor market growth, but the main issue “is that a lot of the

Twenty-one states have already cut benefits to encourage Americans to get back to work.

Inflation is the foremost economic concern for Americans, topping taxes, unemployment, and interest rates, a Wednesday poll indicated.

Maine’s Democrat Gov. Janet Mills announced the “Back To Work” program Monday, which will give people who join the workforce a one-time payment, administered by the state’s Department of Labor and the Department of Economic and Community Development. 

During an interview aired on Friday’s edition of PBS’ “Firing Line,” economist Lawrence Summers argued that one reason for the job shortage is that we have “completely inappropriate” unemployment benefits “on excessively generous terms where we’re giving people more money for

A focus group indicated Thursday only 3 of 13 voters said they believe the U.S. economy is “booming” amid rising inflation concerns.

Street gangs in the U.S. and foreign criminal syndicates may have stolen up to half of the unemployment benefits paid out during the pandemic, according to a report cited by Axios.

On Monday’s “CNN Newsroom,” New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) stated that enhanced unemployment benefits might be one cause of labor shortages, one way that the shortage is being resolved is by increasing wages, which Murphy conceded “may be a

Wages and hours are up but businesses are still struggling to hire because unemployment benefits are set so high.

Recent data from the federal government reveals there are more job openings now than at any other point on record. While the vacancies leave the labor market wide open for those seeking employment, businesses, especially small ones, are suffering.

Florida is ending on June 26 the federal unemployments benefits to residents in a bid to get 460,000 unemployed Floridians back on payrolls.

Republican-led states are proven to bring jobs back faster than Democrat-led states as Americans back to work, according to new state-by-state unemployment data from the Labor Department.

On Thursday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo stated that even if evidence shows cutting unemployment benefits means that people are going to work quicker, it wouldn’t necessarily be an argument for rolling back enhanced federal unemployment benefits. Host Amna Nawaz

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) announced that Oklahoma will opt out of federal unemployment benefits. Stitt said, “A few weeks ago, I lifted the state of emergency in

Arizona just became the 13th state to get out from under the enhanced unemployment benefits businesses say are hurting the economic rebound.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) said that he worries about the federal government’s extended jobless benefits discouraging people from working and said that the federal government should advance

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) reacted to Republicans claiming that increased unemployment benefits have disincentivized people from working by stating that employers should increase their wages. Host Chris Hayes asked, “A trend has started

Floridians who receive unemployment benefits will soon have to show proof that they are job-hunting, according to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Nearly 200,000 illegal aliens living in New York will soon receive $2.1 billion in taxpayer-funded stimulus checks and unemployment benefits thanks to a budget agreed upon by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Job openings in the retail trade sector rose in February, according to data from the Department of Labor’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. In January, employers posted 793,000 help wanted notices. These rose to 817,000 in February.

But the number of hires actually fell in February, the second straight monthly decline.

In other words, the number of people retail businesses want to hire is rising. But the number of workers accepting jobs in retail trade is falling.

President Joe Biden struck a chord of unity in his inauguration speech on Wednesday. “Today, on this January day, my whole soul is in this: bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation,” he said. “And I ask every American to join me in this cause.”

The State of California sent $42 million in unemployment benefits to inmates in prisons and jails in other states, part of $4 billion in similar losses to fraud, according to an internal investigation of the Employment Development Department.

A Tennessee rapper who boasted about getting rich off $1.2 million in unemployment fraud was arrested Friday in Los Angeles.

With no hope of aid from Capitol Hill, employers accelerated layoffs in early October.

On Thursday’s “PBS NewsHour,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reacted to the proposal that some House Democrats have expressed support for to extend enhanced unemployment benefits, by stating that while she supports the unemployment benefit stabilization that the proposal does,