Workplace Strikes Surge During Pandemic, Empowering Workers
From today’s Washington Post: Factory workers, nurses and school bus drivers are among the tens of thousands of Americans who walked off jobs in October amid a surge of labor…
California lawmakers ask Newsom to act immediately on unemployment claims
From Los Angeles Times: More than half the members of the California Legislature called on Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday to immediately begin paying unemployment benefits to many of the…
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Coronavirus relief talks restart as jobless aid divides GOP and Democrats
From today’s CNBC News Online: Democrats and Trump administration officials will sit down again Monday afternoon to try to hammer out an elusive deal on a fifth coronavirus aid bill. …
Senate GOP, White House propose cuts to unemployment relief checks
From today’s ABC News Online: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced a new coronavirus relief plan on the Senate floor after Senate Republican leaders and the White House appear to have overcome…
California unemployment falls, but virus surge likely to reverse job gains
From today’s Los Angeles Times: California added 558,200 jobs from mid-May to mid-June and state unemployment fell from 16.4% to 14.9% — but don’t start celebrating yet. The numbers don’t…
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Federal government is weighing an infrastructure push to create jobs
From today’s New York Times: Fears are growing that the global downturn could be far more punishing and long lasting than initially feared — potentially enduring into next year, and…
Some workers won’t qualify for some unemployment benefits in relief package
From today’s CNBC News Online: The $2 trillion coronavirus relief package President Donald Trump signed into law Friday significantly expands unemployment benefits for out-of-work Americans. The law pays laid-off and furloughed workers an…
SOTU 2014 focuses on jobs, fairness
President Obama’s State of the Union Address last week highlighted a number of themes that focused on creating more opportunities for working Americans by streamlining the tax code, providing financial…
Fed Chair calls out Congress for fiscal policy frustrating recovery
FED Chair Ben Bernanke is widely believed to be stepping down at the end of his second term in January. Today he appeared before Congress to give his last biannual…
DOL reports jobless claims down, as workers give up looking for work
The Department of Labor announced that jobless claims were down from 9 to 8.04 percent in November, the single largest decline since March 2009. The fraction translates into roughly 120,000…