In late March, Congress approved the CARES Act, which was passed in an effort to keep the economy afloat amid the spread of the coronavirus. A major component of the CARES Act was a $600 weekly ...

WASHINTON, D.C. -- Senate Democrats are unveiling a plan to extend additional unemployment benefits. This is for the extra $600 every week, on top of what states already offer for unemployment. The ...

On Tuesday, the Senate failed to muster up the votes to pass an extension of unemployment insurance. Some 1.3 million workers lost their jobless benefits on Dec. 28 when an emergency program to help ...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which President Obama signed on Feb. 17, 2009, contains a major extension of unemployment benefits. States administer unemployment based on federal ...

New Jersey and New York are the only states that currently allow striking workers to collect unemployment. The legislation ...