unemployment

A blowhard rapper has been busted in Los Angeles after rapping in a music video about “getting rich” by fraudulently obtaining COVID-19 unemployment benefits, federal prosecutors said. Fontrell Antonio Baines, 31, who goes by the stage name...

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to 787,000 last week despite continued pressure on the labor market from the coronavirus pandemic, the feds said Thursday.

ALBANY — Wall Street made a killing during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic — at a time of sky high statewide unemployment that has put 500,000 Big Apple residents out of work. The securities industry raked in a massive pretax profits fortune...

CNN's Amara Walker looks at how Asian Americans are facing not only xenophobia as the coronavirus pandemic rages on, but also historic unemployment in the US.

A Michigan couple conspired in an unemployment scheme worth $2.5 million in COVID-19 aid and bragged about buying fancy cars, jewelry and designer clothes on Instagram, prosecutors said Tuesday. Micahia Taylor, 27, and Johnny Richardson, 25, both of...

Some 751,000 Americans applied for jobless benefits last week, but the number of workers joining the nation’s unemployment rolls continued to drop, the feds said Thursday. The US Department of Labor figures mean workers have filed a seasonally...

Some 751,000 American workers applied for unemployment benefits last week, continuing a recent decline amid a nationwide spike in COVID-19 infections.

Another 709,000 Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market continued a slow recovery threatened by a dangerous new wave of coronavirus infections, the feds said Thursday. The latest initial jobless claims brought the...

The markets these days are extremely volatile, with no end to the coronavirus pandemic in sight and economic numbers fluctuating daily between hopeful and dire. Unemployment around the globe is still high and people across the United States are...

COVID, mass unemployment, fiscal disaster — the next mayor of New York City will have a lot on his or her plate to cope with. But Hizz-or-Herhonor can make the Big Apple a much better place almost overnight. Face it: Our streets and sidewalks...

Some 742,000 Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as a surge in coronavirus infections threatened to shut down businesses again, the feds said Thursday. The latest batch of initial jobless claims brought the seasonally adjusted...

California prosecutors say they’ve uncovered a massive scam that allowed convicted killer Scott Peterson and other death row inmates to receive coronavirus unemployment benefits administered by the state, a report said Tuesday. It is “the most...

Thousands of inmates throughout California -- including death row inmates -- may have bilked the state's unemployment benefits system of up to a billion dollars in what prosecutors called "the largest ever taxpayer fraud to occur in this state's...

Some 778,000 American workers applied for unemployment benefits last week as a surge in coronavirus infections kept the labor market’s recovery under pressure, the feds said Wednesday. The latest initial jobless claims reported by the US Department...

Coronavirus infections are skyrocketing. Unemployment is rising. Food lines are getting longer. And President Donald Trump is tweeting.

The arrival of Barack Obama's memoir (part of a $65 million book deal with Michelle Obama) and President Donald Trump's looming unemployment have stirred understandable speculation about a potential Trump memoir. These books have long been a way for...

The US Department of Labor will add an accuracy warning to its weekly unemployment reports after a federal watchdog found flaws in how the figures were reported. The agency’s closely watched reports have equated the number of weeks for which...

American workers filed 712,000 applications for unemployment benefits last week as the coronavirus continued to rage across the nation, the feds said Thursday. The US Department of Labor’s latest figures brought the seasonally adjusted total of...

The US economy added 245,000 jobs in November — barely more than half the number economists expected — as the coronavirus’ resurgence hampered the labor market’s recovery from the pandemic. The unemployment rate barely dropped to 6.7 percent...

Local news anchor Anne McCloy in Albany, New York, intervened on behalf of over 4,000 Americans who were struggling to get unemployment benefits as the coronavirus pandemic overwhelmed the government system.