unemployment

Some 881,000 Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the coronavirus pandemic kept the job market under pressure, the feds said.

The unemployment rate fell below 10 percent last month for the first time since the  coronavirus pandemic took hold in March as the US economy added 1.4 million jobs. The growth helped push the nation’s staggeringly high unemployment rate to 8.4...

Some 884,000 Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market’s recovery from the coronavirus crisis stalled once again, new data show. That means a seasonally adjusted total of 60.1 million initial jobless claims have...

Senate Democrats on Thursday blocked a coronavirus stimulus bill that included funds for people left unemployed by the pandemic. In a party-line vote, Democrats withheld the 60 votes needed to consider the bill, continuing months-long gridlock ahead...

After being criticized for foot-dragging, the Cuomo administration announced Thursday that next week it will begin distributing the expanded $300 weekly unemployment insurance benefits to up to 2.4 million jobless New Yorkers. The White House had...

With fewer than two months until the election, the odds for a massive stimulus compromise intended to help bolster small businesses, provide additional unemployment benefits and give more money to schools as they adapt amid the coronavirus pandemic...

Some 860,000 Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the coronavirus pandemic continued to weigh on the US labor market, the feds said Thursday. Last week’s initial jobless claims dropped from the prior week’s revised count of...

The Cuomo administration finally started distributing unemployment insurance benefits this week to 2.26 million New Yorkers — $1.9 billion in total — weeks after the White House accused the state of dragging its feet on the matter. The state...

The Cuomo administration is still getting inundated with complaints from frustrated jobless New Yorkers who haven’t received federal pandemic-related unemployment benefits that officials promised to transfer into their accounts last week....

Maybe Gov. Andrew Cuomo just doesn’t want New Yorkers to get President Trump’s jobless benefits. The state’s lame excuses for its failure to ensure those payments actually reach people who file claims are just the latest evidence. Democrats in...

Another 870,000 Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market struggled to bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic, the feds said Thursday.

"I really count myself blessed to have a job right now," says Akhona Zondani.

Friday's jobs report will be the last look we get at the American labor market before the election. Economists expect an unemployment rate of 8.2% -- only slightly less than in August -- which would be the highest jobless rate on record (going back...

Some 837,000 Americans filed applications for unemployment benefits last week as companies continued to cut large numbers of workers amid the coronavirus pandemic, the feds said Thursday. The weekly number of initial jobless claims brought the...

The US economy added 661,000 jobs in September as the American labor market’s rebound from the coronavirus pandemic hit yet another snag, new data show. Last month’s growth in non-farm payrolls helped push the unemployment rate down to 7.9...

Another 840,000 American workers applied for unemployment benefits last week, the feds said Thursday, leaving the labor market in a precarious position with coronavirus stimulus talks at a standstill. The US Department of Labor’s latest seasonally...

Manhattan’s fanciest retailers and restaurants are back — just in time for a really rough winter. There’s been a surge in recent weeks of high-end fashion boutiques and restaurant reopenings in central Manhattan, despite record unemployment,...

Fraud indictments may be on the horizon, a court insider told The Post.

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...