Nearly 18 months after Congress came to the rescue of jobless Americans, its historic expansion of the nation's unemployment benefits system expired nationwide this weekend.
The federal pandemic unemployment benefits, which helped many survive an unprecedented economic crisis, are ending on Sept. 5 for some 7.5 million recipients.
Chris Summers has a pending unemployment claim, but $600 was deposited into his account by the unemployment office. He just wants to know if that money is really is.
New York has to borrow money from the federal government to pay its state unemployment benefits after more than a million newly jobless residents filed claims amid the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday.
The New York State Department of Labor received more than 8 million phone calls last week from New Yorkers looking to file unemployment claims, a massive increase over normal call volume, the agency s
It was another good month for American workers. The jobs report released Friday showed the best jobs numbers of any report since July 2016. Meanwhile, unemployment...