Stories tagged: "jobless claims"
The coronavirus pandemic is worsening drastically across the United States, pushing jobless numbers to highs unseen since last summer.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the GOP will not extend the added $600 weekly benefit when it expires at the end of July.
Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate reached 15.1% in April and nearly two million Pennsylvanians have sought unemployment benefits since mid-March.
These are the obstacles facing freelancers—which include about 57 million Americans—applying for unemployment because of work lost due to coronavirus.
Roughly 22 million filed for unemployment benefits in the past month — easily the worst U.S. job losses. But only 12 million people are getting the checks.
That's about one-sixth of the nearly 6.6 million people that Pennsylvania reported being in the civilian labor force in February.