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More Than a Million Workers Expected to Have Filed Jobless Claims: Live Updates
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For 17 straight weeks, the U.S. government has reported that more than one million workers filed new state unemployment insurance claims. There is
Fraudulent Jobless Claims Slow Relief to the Truly Desperate
Roughly 200,000 claimants in Washington were flagged for identification fraud in mid-May, and in mid-June 50 members of the National Guard started to help process the remainder of those claims, which were recently resolved. But there are still 71,000 people who have filed since March and have not received benefits.
Starting Bonus for a Laundry Worker: How a Beach Town Wrestles With Jobless Benefits
REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. — Kelsey McGarry went back to her job at Thompson Island Brewing Company in Rehoboth Beach, Del., in April even though doing so meant that she was earning less than she would have simply by accepting unemployment insurance, which included an extra $600 per week.
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Why Japan’s Jobless Rate Is Just 2.6% While the U.S.’s Has Soared
TOKYO — When the coronavirus hit Japan, Mari Nagata, a single mother who works in a restaurant, had a lot of worries. Her children’s school closed, and she feared what would happen to them if she got sick.
But there was one thing that Ms. Nagata, unlike millions of service
Record Unemployment: Faces of the Jobless During the Coronavirus
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As shopping centers emptied, shows were canceled and office towers turned dark, millions of people suddenly found themselves without jobs.
They are ad executives, handymen, servers and wedding D.J.s. They worked in law firms and hotels and retail stores and concert halls. As the outbreak spread, the coronavirus sucked