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 ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a press conference regarding the extension of increased unemployment benefits on Friday, hours before those benefits are set to expire. As part of the CARES Act, a ...

Politico's Chris Frates on who's to blame for ending unemployment benefits July 1, 2010— -- More than 1.3 million unemployed workers won't be getting their next round of unemployment benefits, ...

Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, the Republican whip, argued that unemployment benefits dissuade people from job-hunting “because people are being paid even though they’re not working.” Unemployment insurance ...

Wednesday marks the beginning of the end of extended unemployment benefits for about 2 million Americans. A bill to extend the benefits past the end of December was blocked by House Republicans in mid ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (WTVD) -- Saturday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would extend the federal benefits provided to unemployed Americans as part of the CARES Act. The order, which many ...

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CHICAGO, April 14-- The Illinois Department of Employment Security issued the following news release: One month later, 64,000 or 86 percent, still were without work, according to an Illinois ...