Supplementary unemployment benefits in the amount of $ 600 per week will stop being paid at the end of July. Democrats want to extend payments next year, but Republicans appear to be strongly blocking such an extension. But legislators on both sides of the political spectrum have different ideas, such ...
During the last reporting period, the number of new applications for unemployment benefits amounted to 3 million. Thus, the total number of people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic reached 36,5 million, writes CNBC. 2,981 million new applications for unemployment benefits filed ...
As states begin to lift stay-at-home orders, some businesses are reopening their doors after a two-month hiatus, CNBC recalls. Retail, restaurant, hospitality, service and meat processing workers receive calls from their employers about ...
The notorious 2019-nCoV coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19, turned out to be deadly for people. Serious economic problems have become a side effect of the pandemic. Measures to prevent the spread of the virus in many cases led to the closure of a large number of small and medium-sized businesses, as well as partial layoffs ...
The number of unemployed people “will get worse before it gets better.” This was stated by the head of the US Treasury Department, Steven Mnuchin, writes NPR. According to Mnuchin, the anti-record for job losses in the country has not yet been broken - the head of the Treasury claims that “the numbers are likely to worsen before ...
Hollywood actor Bobby Reed was yearning for work: his last show, 3 months of filming for HBO, ended on January 17. Bobby sat in quarantine all this time until a new offer arrived. Filming is scheduled to begin on May 9 in Los Angeles, says “The Voice...
Speaking to reporters at the White House, US President Donald Trump announced the need to reform the country's health insurance system. Why now is not the right time for this initiative, says CNN. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, which has become one of the leading causes of death ...
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 20,5 million people in the US lost their jobs in April. This is the most sudden and largest recession since the government began tracking data in 1939. Writes about this CNN. These losses followed ...
President Donald Trump said the COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a heavier blow to the United States than the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II or the 11/5 attacks, Voice of America reported. In the first quarter, the US GDP contracted by almost XNUMX%, the maximum from ...
The new coronavirus has taken over the United States and the world, temporarily paralyzing many of the industries we have come to rely on. In 6 weeks, the US unemployment rate reached a new record high. The total number of new applications for unemployment benefits has exceeded 30 million since the beginning ...