All posts tagged with jobless claims
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-(Natural News) The number of Americans who have filed initial jobless claims has risen to a six-month high, marking the fifth consecutive month that weekly claims for unemployment benefits have topped the 230,000 mark. According to government data from the Department of Labor, initial filings for state unemployment benefits increased by 4,000 to a seasonally adjusted […]
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-(Natural News) A group of young men in New York City has been charged with allegedly stealing over $2 million in Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) relief funds from other people in the assistance program. They were caught after posting pictures of themselves on social media with the stolen cash. The eight young men, between the ages of 18 and 25, […]
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-(Natural News) States that opted out of the federal government’s pandemic unemployment benefits program in June saw an increase in their job numbers. According to the Daily Caller, these mostly Republican states experienced a 33 percent drop in new jobless claims compared to the roughly 4 percent drop in states that did not. Stagnating job […]
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-(Natural News) Authorities have warned that states are being hit with unemployment-benefit fraud amounting to billions of lost dollars. This comes amid historically high levels of jobless claims related to the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. “In a large-scale scam erupting in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic, imposters are filing claims for unemployment benefits, using the names and […]
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-(Natural News) The Department of Labor (DOL) reported Thursday that 5.2 million more people filed first-time unemployment claims last week. The additional claims bring the total number of jobless claims for the week ended April 11 followed the 6.6 million claims reported the week before and bring the total claims filed since the coronavirus crisis forced businesses to close to […]
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-(Natural News) To say that the employment situation in America is bad and getting worse is probably the understatement of the year. After mayors and governors have shut down most of their cities and states around the country, ordering businesses deemed “non-essential” to close their doors in an effort to help contain the Wuhan coronavirus, […]
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