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The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits plunged last week to its lowest level since the start of the coronavirus crisis, the feds said Thursday. The latest batch of 576,000 initial jobless claims brought the total for the COVID-19...

With half of American adults having had at least one vaccine dose and restrictions gradually easing throughout most of the country, employers are eager to rebuild the economy. One problem: Unemployment benefits have become so generous, people...

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits has hit its lowest level since the pandemic began, the Labor Department reported Thursday. First-time claims for unemployment insurance totaled 547,000, significantly below the Dow Jones...

With the economy showing evidence of steady recovery, federal aid incentivizing unemployment may soon be a bigger problem for the job market than pandemic layoffs. Thursday’s Labor Department report showed 547,000 first-time unemployment claims...

New York and New Jersey ranked highly in lockdowns, unemployment numbers and in residents leaving the states since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to recent data.

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits dropped last week to its lowest level since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

In a massive disappointment to economists, the US added just 266,000 jobs in April and the unemployment rate rose slightly to 6.1 percent, the feds said Friday.

The US added just 266,000 new jobs last month — far below estimates of around 1 million as the economy rebounds from the pandemic. Joe Biden said the figures show "more help is needed."

New York City restaurants have been burned by a shortage of workers who say they're better off collecting COVID-relief bill-enhanced unemployment checks — leaving some eateries unable to open at the newly expanded 75 percent indoor capacity Friday,...

Under President Biden's recently enacted $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, workers who lost their jobs to the pandemic shutdowns and scale-backs are now earning more in unemployment benefits than they did in wages.

President Joe Biden met Republican criticisms of his economic proposals head-on Friday, citing disappointing jobs data as a call to action for more government spending and brushing aside concerns that generous expanded unemployment benefits have kept...

President Joe Biden discussed the need for people to get back into the workforce and off of unemployment benefits if they are able to do so.

About two-thirds of Brooklyn's merchants are having difficulty hiring workers as they seek to ramp up operations following the coronavirus shutdowns.

​Five Republican governors are turning down the $300 in enhanced unemployment benefits that are part of President Biden's coronavirus relief plan to encourage their jobless workers to return to work.

The White House on Friday urged businesses struggling to find workers willing to come off unemployment to raise their pay to compete with a $300 per week federal unemployment insurance supplement. A top economic adviser to President Biden said that...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy wrote a letter co-signed by other representatives urging states to forego giving citizens the extra federal unemployment benefits

Texas and Indiana will end early the $300 weekly federal boost to state unemployment payments, as well as two other pandemic jobless benefits programs, according to both states' Republican governors -- joining 17 other GOP-led states in dropping the...

There’s a wild card in the push to return to pre-pandemic life: Many workers don’t want to go back to the jobs they once had. Layoffs and lockdowns, combined with enhanced unemployment benefits and stimulus checks, gave many Americans the time...

Police phony jobless claims? You must be joking, Mr. President! Fed up with generous US unemployment perks that critics say are impossible to effectively oversee for abuses, a fast-growing number of states are turning them down altogether. Some 21...

The number of Americans seeking new unemployment benefits continued to drop last week, the feds said Thursday, as a slew of states move to slash the pandemic-boosted payments. Initial worker filings for jobless claims, seen as a signal of layoffs,...