Thursday, September 23, 2021
Greg DeLaat canceled a job interview for a phone call that took eight months and two state lawmakers to nail down. The 57-year-old Parma man owes at least $21,000 in unemployment benefits that he never received. Despite having a master's degree...
Friday, September 17, 2021
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today released a report warning that millions of renters and their families may suffer previously avoided economic harms of the COVID-19 pandemic as federal and state relief programs end. The report, “...
Monday, August 30, 2021
The dangerous delta variant is spreading. The future of schools is unclear. And millions of workers are about to be kicked off unemployment. On Labor Day, expanded unemployment benefits put in place in response to the pandemic are set to expire, and...
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
The share of Americans living in poverty shrank to an estimated 9.2% in 2020, according to the Urban Institute, a think tank that closely tracks this rate with a widely used model. There were 29.3 million Americans living below the poverty line, the...
Monday, August 16, 2021
The short answer is “Very Important”. The purpose of this study was to answer two research questions. First, what was the impact of participation in South Carolina’s Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) programme, Family Independence...
Tuesday, August 3, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the U.S. economy into a nosedive of unprecedented rapidity. Millions of workers have lost their jobs and are unable to work from home. GDP is plummeting, small business owners cannot meet their rent and other...
Friday, July 16, 2021
The rapidly spreading delta variant of Covid-19 may be reason for Congress to extend federal unemployment benefits past their expiration in early September, according to some labor economists.
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
States that have terminated pandemic unemployment benefits early can restart the programs, but there may be a break in payments for some laid-off Americans, the Biden administration said Monday.
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
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For the first time in U.S. history, the government is establishing an allowance for families with children,...
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Job hunting has been muted in 12 states that opted out of federal unemployment programs in recent weeks, suggesting the policy may not be working as planned, according to a new analysis by job site Indeed.