Stories tagged: "unemployment"
If the country defaults on its debt, millions of people would lose their jobs, retirement accounts would be decimated, Social Security payments could be delayed, Medicare and Medicaid benefits could be affected, and military members could see paychecks delayed.
The Pennsylvania unemployment rate dropped to 4%, down from 5.6% a year ago.
Pennsylvanians, and Americans, are getting back to work.
In the first week of August, roughly 640,000 people were receiving an extra $300, according to figures from the state Department of Labor and Industry.
The Biden Administration is updating two programs to help unemployed people trying to get education or workforce training.
State GOP lawmakers don't want Pennsylvanians to receive unemployment bonus anymore. That could be bad for the state's economy.
The new system is based on what officials said is modern software to replace an "obsolete 40-year-old mainframe legacy system."