A scam caused California taxpayer money that was supposed to go toward COVID-related unemployment benefits to be sent to at least 20,000 prisoners, including well-known convicted murderers Scott Peterson and serial killer Cary Stayner.
Economists had expected jobless claims to inch up to 710,000.
Trump’s America First economy brought Americans together.
The votes of the nation’s 30 million small business owners and many of the 60 million who work for them will go to the presidential candidate who can get the economy back on its feet as fast as possible.
President Donald Trump has had one of the most consequential first terms of any president in American history.
Jobless claims made a significant move downward.
Unemployment claims were falling even while th “60 Minutes” star insisted otherwise.
New claims for unemployment benefits tumbled by much more than expected to 787,000 in the week ended October 17.
Swedish economics professor Johan Eklund has criticised the government’s failure to integrate migrants who arrived in 2015 into the labour force.
With no hope of aid from Capitol Hill, employers accelerated layoffs in early October.
Very little improvement in jobless claims.
The Swedish Public Employment Office has revealed that 43 per cent of foreigners without work lack a high school education, compared to just 18 per cent of native-born unemployed.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani boasted Saturday his country is beating advanced economies such as Germany during the coronavirus pandemic. However, in a country where telling the truth is regarded as an act of sedition, he made no mention of some 60 million Iranians now relying on state aid to survive.
Nancy Pelosi waited for bad news for the president to pass the airline bailout — just likes waited for Trump to be impeached to pass the USMCA.
Economists had forecast 894,000 jobs and a decline in the unemployment rate to 8.2 percent.
The statistics of the wildfire season in the western United States are grim: 7.4 million acres have been charred and 40 people have perished. And this year, California’s premier wine industry is also a victim.
Unemployment rose for a fifth straight month in Europe in August, narrowing the gap with the U.S. The continued rise in unemployment across the continent is feeding concerns that extensive government support programs won’t be able keep many businesses hit
Unemployment claims are still very high and have not made much progress in several weeks.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Squeezed by limits on attendance at its theme parks and other restrictions due to the pandemic, The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday it planned to lay off 28,000 workers in its parks division in California and Florida.
Initial claims for unemployment benefits climbed last week.
A small improvement, slightly bettter than expeced, in new claims for unemployment benefits.
Back in June the Fed’s median forecast was for the economy to shrink 6.5 percent. Now it sees only a 3.7 percent contraction.
A handful of House Republicans, and two House Democrats, are circulating a plan asking the State Department to widen the H-2B visa program that brings tens of thousands of low-skilled foreign workers to the United States every year.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) will introduce three new pieces of legislation on Wednesday that aim to curb rioters, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.
The U.S. economy outperformed most of Europe and Japan in the most recent quarter.
The racial gap in unemployment narrowed during Trump’s presidency to its lowest level ever.
Tens of millions of Americans remain jobless, but all want full-time jobs, mostly as a result of economic shutdowns spurred by the Chinese coronavirus crisis, new unemployment data shows.
Back when Obama was running for president in 2012, Schumer was happy to celebrate smaller gains in employment.
Economists had forecast an addition of around 1.32 million jobs and a decline in the unemployment rate to 9.8 percent.
Jobless claims were expected to fall to 958,000.
The ADP number has been wildly offbase in recent months but it tends to get the direction of employment growth right.
The unemployment rate across the 19 countries that use the euro currency rose modestly to 7.9% in July, official figures showed Tuesday.
President Donald Trump spoke to the American people about his record with African-Americans and minorities on Thursday as he took part in the fourth and final night of the Republican National Convention (RNC).
A few months before mass joblessness hit the United States, spurred by the Chinese coronavirus crisis, a number of House and Senate Republicans lobbied the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to import more foreign workers to take blue-collar jobs.
Another one million U.S. workers have filed for new unemployment benefits, the Labor Department said in its weekly report Thursday.
Only a Biden administration would consider shutting down the American economy again.
“I would shut it down,” Biden said in an interview aired Sunday night on ABC, before adding the weasel words, “I would listen to scientists.”
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,
Giant tech corporations have joined a Chamber of Commerce lawsuit that seeks to overturn President Trump’s executive order halting visa programs to prioritize unemployed Americans for scarcely available jobs.
Hispanic and middle-income Americans are the strongest supports of Trump’s executive actions.
LONDON (AP) — The number of people in employment in the UK fell by 220,000 in the three months after the country was put into lockdown as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, official figures showed Tuesday.
