WASHINGTON — Expanded unemployment benefits that have kept millions of Americans afloat during the pandemic expired on Monday, setting up an abrupt cutoff of assistance to 7.5 million people as […]
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“You put 10, 15, 20 years into a career and then to suddenly not be able to go see a dentist anymore, it feels like something’s wrong there,” she said. […]
Big Economic Challenges Await Biden and the Fed This Fall
Mr. Powell said at his news conference last week that “we’re some way away from having had substantial further progress toward the maximum employment goal.”“I would want to see some […]
How to Cope With the End of Unemployment Insurance and Other Covid Safety Nets
Usually, these plans can offer only a limited grace period to use money that you didn’t spend during the regular 12-month period. If you don’t use the money, you forfeit […]
The Coronavirus Pandemic Safety Net Is Coming Apart. Now What?
Distressed homeowners with loans owned by private banks or investors should contact their mortgage servicer to see what options they’re offering — some of them have followed a framework similar […]
June Jobs Report Shows an 850,000 Gain, Better Than Expected
Anxieties over a lag in hiring lifted on Friday as the government reported that employers added 850,000 workers in June, the largest monthly gain since August.Wages jumped for the third […]
Where Jobless Benefits Were Cut, Jobs Are Still Hard to Fill
She got an offer on the spot and took it.Justin Johnson, too, already had a job when he showed up at an Express Employment Professionals office. He was working at […]
Federal Unemployment Aid Is Now a Political Lightning Rod
Of the more than four million people whose jobless benefits are going to be cut off in the next few weeks, Bre Starr will be among the first.That’s because Ms. […]
May 2021 Jobs Report: U.S. Adds 559,000 to Payrolls
Employers added hundreds of thousands of jobs last month as coronavirus infections ebbed, vaccinations spread and businesses reopened, the government reported Friday. But the labor market’s recovery from the pandemic […]
Uber and Lyft Surges: What to Know
A few weeks after receiving the second dose of a coronavirus vaccine, Debora Lima returned to an old routine: She pulled out her phone and requested an Uber ride so […]