unemployment

The Labor Department has exhausted its options for continuing to pay an extra $300 a week in federal unemployment benefits to jobless people in the 22 GOP-led states that are ending them early, an administration official told CNN Thursday.

The number of Americans seeking new unemployment benefits continued to drop last week to a new low during the pandemic, the feds said Thursday.

On the day states said they would end the checks, which critics say are making it hard for businesses to hire workers as they struggle to recover from the pandemic — clicks for job postings spiked by 5 percent, compared to the last two weeks of...

The number of Americans seeking new unemployment benefits dropped below 400,000 for the first time since March of last year — marking a new low pandemic low, the feds said.

With drivers receiving unemployment or just outright working new jobs, the cost of taking a ride-sharing app has soared.

Nearly 3.5 million Americans are still on traditional state unemployment benefits even as the number of Americans seeking new claims fell again last week to a fresh pandemic low, the feds said Thursday. Continuing claims fell by over 250,000 from 3.8...

They may not be terminating pandemic unemployment benefits like their GOP peers, but Democratic governors are also prodding Americans to go back to work amid a surging number of job openings. And so is President Joe Biden.

Criminals were likely able to defraud the government by stealing personal information.

Up to half of US unemployment benefits over the past year may have gone to fraudsters, a theft that could top $400 billion, reports Axios’ Felix Salmon. Even if the real figure is a third of that, it’s a scandal for the ages and a sign that...

The number of Americans seeking new jobless claims rose last week, shattering six straight weeks of declines, the feds said Thursday. New filings for jobless claims, seen as a proxy for layoffs, rose to 412,000 last week, up from a revised estimate...

A facial recognition system from ID.me is denying unemployment benefits to people across the US with potentially concerning frequency.

A facial recognition system from ID.me is denying unemployment benefits to people across the US with potentially concerning frequency.

A facial recognition system from ID.me is denying unemployment benefits to people across the US with potentially concerning frequency.

A facial recognition system from ID.me is denying unemployment benefits to people across the US with potentially concerning frequency.

A facial recognition system from ID.me is denying unemployment benefits to people across the US with potentially concerning frequency.

A facial recognition system from ID.me is denying unemployment benefits to people across the US with potentially concerning frequency.

A facial recognition system from ID.me is denying unemployment benefits to people across the US with potentially concerning frequency.

A facial recognition system from ID.me is denying unemployment benefits to people across the US with potentially concerning frequency.

Farren Ricketts plead guilty to conspiring to defraud the government after she allegedly used personal information of prison inmates to file over 100 fake unemployment benefit claims.

More than 3.4 million Americans are still on traditional state unemployment benefits even as the number of Americans seeking new claims ticked modestly down last week.