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U.S. companies announced more than 2.3 million job cuts in 2020, nearly half of which were attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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New Jersey has a jobless rate of 10.2%, which is higher than the worst level of the Great Recession.
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Federal Reserve believes the rebound in employment will quicken to near the all-time low the jobless rate set last year.
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Among the arguments for extending the benefits of the original CARES Act is that the overall economy will suffer as consumers drop into poverty and demand for goods and services suffers.
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The state most likely to have overpaid unemployment benefits is Michigan, according to U.S. Department of Labor data.
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States are beginning to send letters to Americans who received unemployment benefits this year notifying them that they had been inadvertently overpaid.
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While Congress continues to debate a second relief package for workers, the states are beginning to send letters to Americans who received unemployment benefits this year notifying them that they had...
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The major recovery in the jobs market has started to show fatigue as 2020 comes to an end.
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Carson City, Nevada, which has a population of less than 56,000, has a jobless rate of more than 6%.
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The reality of 2020 is that good and bad economic numbers just do not matter. That will not last forever, but right now that is the case.
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Job losses rose by 45% year over year in November to nearly 65,000. The data was reported Thursday by job outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
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Certain occupations are, for a variety of reasons unrelated to the pandemic, becoming increasingly obsolete. This rail transportation job is disappearing the fastest.
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It turns out that Canada's GDP recovery was even more impressive than that in the United States in terms of percentages.
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Here's where 12 million Americans may lose jobless benefits, state by state, according to a new report from the Century Foundation.
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The decline in employment in the 10 largest counties over the past year is breathtakingly large. The largest was in New Jersey.
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