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Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, and CNN's Poppy Harlow get into a heated exchange over unemployment benefits.

The good news is that President Donald Trump is aiming to help Americans hurt by the coronavirus pandemic, signing executive actions to extend expanded unemployment benefits and a moratorium on evictions.

Covering part of the benefits would set the Empire State back $4 billion, Cuomo estimated, saying the cost was "irreconcilable."

President Donald Trump opened the door on Sunday to allowing some unemployed Americans to get enhanced unemployment benefits even if the states in which they live won't pay part of the costs.

The UK economy has shed 730,000 jobs since the coronavirus pandemic shuttered businesses in March, with the young, the old and the self-employed bearing the brunt of the unemployment crisis.

What’s happening with the unemployment benefits? Amid an impasse between Democrats and Republicans in Congress, President Trump signed an executive order on Saturday to restore an extra $400 to weekly unemployment benefits for millions of...

Coronavirus stimulus gridlock continued Tuesday with no deal in sight. Democrats and Trump administration officials walked away from the negotiating table after a week of fruitless discussions over extending unemployment aid and paycheck protection....

Some 963,000 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as new jobless claims fell below 1 million for the first time since March.

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow on Thursday said he expects the US unemployment rate to return to single-digit levels as early as this month and growth in the third quarter at 20 percent or more as the economy recovers from the recession...

The state Department of Labor said that it identified and stopped more than 42,200 fraudulent unemployment benefit claims since COVID-19 hit the Empire State in March.

President Trump heaped praise Saturday on the four states that have jumped on his plan to extend extra unemployment benefits to those made jobless by the coronavirus pandemic. “Great work by the Governors of AZ, IA, LA, and NM who responded to my...

South Dakota has turned down President Trump’s offer of a $300 weekly boost in unemployment aid amid the coronavirus pandemic. Gov. Kristi Noem on Friday said her state was “fortunate” not to need the federal funds, citing the rebounding local...

Some 1.1 million Americans filed applications for unemployment benefits last week, driving the total for the coronavirus pandemic above 57 million. Thursday’s jump in seasonally adjusted initial jobless claims came just a week after they fell below...

More than a dozen states have been approved to pay unemployed workers $300 a week authorized by President Trump — but New York hasn’t even asked for the cash, according to a website that tracks the applications. Kentucky is the latest state given...

More than one-quarter of America’s states have qualified to pay their laid-off workers $300 a week in unemployment insurance authorized by President Trump — but it apparently took a nudge from The Post for New York to finally seek some of the...

Let them leave. That was the blunt message Mayor de Blasio had for well-heeled New Yorkers fleeing the city because of the coronavirus, rising crime, unemployment and other factors — even though the top 1 percent of earners pay nearly half the Big...

Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy warned of a slowdown in sales in the third quarter as it faces risks from the coronavirus pandemic including unemployment, lower government stimulus and potential product shortages.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) says it “makes absolutely no sense” to maintain the current levels of legal immigration in the US when the country faces an unemployment crisis, he said in an interview Tuesday. Speaking to Breitbart News, the Arkansas...

The California city said the proposed stipend would provide the equivalent of $12.50 an hour for two 40-hour work weeks to those who don't qualify for unemployment or other assistance programs.

The number of Americans who have applied for unemployment benefits during the coronavirus pandemic grew to more than 58.4 million on Thursday, as 1 million more people filed jobless claims.