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Last week, the Department of Labor released the final employment report of the Trump administration, and the news there, much like all the news these days, was not good. For months, I’ve written that the ....
The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) yesterday released a report titled “COVID-19: Urgent Actions Needed to Better Ensure an Effective Federal Response.” The report includes numerous policy and administrative recommendations, including several specific to the ....
In the past few days, the US Department of Labor (DOL) has released updated unemployment data showing the economic recovery continued to deepen and spread across the country in October. That data also suggests that ....
This morning’s headlines report that US initial unemployment benefit claims rose last week, with some suggesting that reflects a slowing economy due to surging coronavirus cases. The headline of a Wall Street Journal article offers ....
New reports indicate the federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program has been subject to massive fraud, especially in California where the PUA caseload has spiked by 3.9 million in just the most recent two weeks ....
Yesterday’s unemployment benefit claims report from the US Department of Labor (DOL) shows positive trends on multiple fronts, starting with first-time claims for state unemployment insurance (UI) benefits dropping below one million for the first ....
While most will focus on its proposed changes to the $600 per week federal bonus for the unemployed, the HEALS Act — unveiled by Senate Republicans Monday — also includes an important technical change designed ....
As Congress reviews the latest proposals to assist the unemployed and help the economy recover, the most recent round of unemployment benefit claims data continues to offer policymakers confusing signals, to put it mildly. As ....
Forty-eight Percent of Job Ads with Salaries Above $35K MONTGOMERY - Data collected and analyzed by the Alabama Department of Labor’s Labor Market Information (LMI) Division shows that the most online wanted ads were for ....
Last week, I reviewed how the number of people apparently collecting Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) benefits far exceeded — by over 5 million — the total number who had applied to get on that temporary ....