New Jobless Claims Fall Unexpectedly
WASHINGTON — The number of newly laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits dropped unexpectedly last week, a sign the job market ...
WASHINGTON — The number of newly laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits dropped unexpectedly last week, a sign the job market ...
Washington Post | Peter Whoriskey | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics
The recession's jobless toll is draining unemployment-compensation funds so fast that according to federal projections, 40 state programs will go brok...
McClatchy | Jenny Gold | Posted 12.18.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON -- Laid-off workers may soon get a reprieve from one of their worries: health insurance. A proposal to extend the health insurance subsid...
AP | Posted 12.18.2009 | Los Angeles
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California's unemployment rate fell slightly in November – down to 12.3 percent from 12.5 percent a month earlier, th...
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER and TALI ARBEL | Posted 12.17.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — A report on unemployment claims and a forecast of U.S. economic activity pointed Thursday to an economy mending slowly, without the...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics
The House of Representatives passed a temporary extension of unemployment benefits and subsidized health insurance for laid-off workers on Wednesday a...
Rep. Joe Sestak | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics
Hundreds of Americans from all across the country have contacted my office because they cannot afford the expense of COBRA. No one should have to go without health care.
AP | Posted 12.10.2009 | Technology
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Authorities say a text message scam is targeting Ohioans who receive unemployment benefits. Attorney General Richard Cordray s...
latimes.com | Tiffany Hsu | Posted 12.09.2009 | Los Angeles
An estimated 117,000 Californians haven't received their unemployment checks -- some for more than a month -- because of what state officials blame on...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 12.07.2009 | Politics
Labor commissioners and unemployment-agency officials from several states joined a coalition of labor and advocacy groups Monday to implore Congress t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business
Laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits today are almost twice as likely as their counterparts during the recession of the 1980s to be accused ...
AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — The tally of newly laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits fell unexpectedly for the fifth straight week, a hopeful sign tha...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 12.01.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — As unemployment spikes, the cost of compassion is going up too. By as much as $100 billion....
New York Times | PAUL KRUGMAN | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business
So it's time for an emergency jobs program. How is a jobs program different from a second stimulus? It's a matter of priorities. The 2009 Obama sti...
Pavlina R. Tcherneva | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business
If the U.S. government creates a permanent, voluntary public employment program that offers a living-wage job to anyone willing and able to work in a public service project, unemployment will be addressed directly.
AP | EMILY FREDRIX | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
Economists expect the joblessness that has weighed down the nation's economic recovery will start to slowly abate in 2010, but they predict consumers ...
ABC News | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business
When the pink slip comes, trouble follows -- financial, but emotional as well. Three in 10 Americans in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll sa...
Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business
As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. A family in Indianapolis,...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.19.2009 | Business
One million people will stop receiving unemployment benefits in January unless Congress makes a move before the Christmas recess, according to an anal...
The Hill | Mike Soraghan | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
House Democratic leaders, worried they've appeared unresponsive to rising unemployment because they were absorbed by healthcare, are aiming for a legi...
Dean Baker | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
Imagine if workers in the US, like workers in Germany, were dealing with the recession by putting in four-day weeks (while getting paid for five) or getting an extra two weeks of paid vacation. This sure beats being unemployed.
usnews.com | Rick Newman | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
You know about the bailouts, the stimulus plan, cash for clunkers, and moola for mansions. But for all the anxiety they've caused, those government gi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
The GOP called for the check Wednesday night, having had enough of the fight over an extension of unemployment benefits that the party had held up for...
The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business
As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. Attila Streyar and his t...
Rep. Joe Sestak | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
Losing health care along with one's job is something Americans should not have to cope with at this difficult time. So I have introduced the Extended COBRA Continuation Protection Act of 2009.
AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 12.31.2009 | Business