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COVID & Unemployment

What you need to know about the job market during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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COVID & Unemployment

Answers to your questions about unemployment benefits and COVID-19

by Jack Stewart
Jul 7, 2020
As we approach the deadline for the expanded coronavirus unemployment payments to end, we look at some of the key questions around benefits.
Hundreds of unemployed Kentucky residents wait in long lines outside the Kentucky Career Center for help with their unemployment claims.
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It's the last month of $600-a-week unemployment benefits. What happens next?

by Mitchell Hartman
Jul 7, 2020
Unless Congress extends the $600-a-week program, benefits are set to expire at the end of July.
Overall, jobless benefits are pumping about $100 billion per month into the U.S. economy.
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How the UK has kept unemployment down — for now

by Victoria Craig
Jul 7, 2020
So far, the nation's businesses have avoided laying off 9.3 million workers.
Government furlough programs and business loan and grant schemes allowed U.K. companies to keep their staff on their payrolls even if their doors were shut.
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COVID & Unemployment

Minimum wage rises for some despite business protests

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Jul 3, 2020
Some businesses owners struggling with COVID-19 restrictions asked for the pay hike to be delayed.
Members of the Service Employees International Union call for an increased minimum wage.
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Despite June's bullish employment numbers, the job market is reeling — and will be for a while

by Mitchell Hartman
Jul 2, 2020
Employment remains below pre-pandemic levels, and as recently reopened businesses re-close, more job losses are on the way.
A grocery store employee cleans carts for customers in New York. Low-wage workers are disproportionately affected by the suffering job market.
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Here's what the crescendo of unemployment sounds like

by Kai Ryssdal and Alli Fam
Jun 24, 2020
Jordan Wirfs-Brock "sonified" data from unemployment claims to give us another way to process historic job losses.
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When does the expanded COVID-19 unemployment insurance run out?

by Jack Stewart
Jun 5, 2020
Answers to some common questions about the changes to unemployment benefits.
The economic shutdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic sparked an explosion of Americans filing for unemployment benefits.
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COVID & Unemployment

Should employers report employees who don't go back to work?

by Jack Stewart and Justin Ho
May 14, 2020
It could mean workers scared of COVID-19 are kicked off unemployment benfits.
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Here’s how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected Americans’ paychecks and working hours

by Janet Nguyen
May 5, 2020
Our Marketplace-Edison Research Poll looks at how Americans are dealing with COVID-19.
An employee cleaning tables at a business in Franklin, Tennessee.
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Millions are facing unemployment without savings to fall back on

by Mitchell Hartman
Apr 2, 2020
The median U.S. household has just a couple of weeks worth of savings to tap into in a crisis.
Some economists believe the unemployment rate could hit 30% before long.
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