States Need to Eye Alternative Funds For Unemployment, DOL Warns

States may begin to run short on money to pay unemployment claims by mid-November as the government shutdown stretches into ...
Washington Examiner

Labor Department cuts $400 million from unemployment benefits system ‘riddled with waste’

The Department of Labor is cutting roughly $400 million in grants meant to provide states with funding to modernize their unemployment insurance systems. The department confirmed the cuts in a ...
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1.6 million Americans could lose unemployment aid; Here's what's happening

A prolonged government shutdown is creating ripple effects across several federal programs, and the unemployment insurance ...

Low unemployment masks a ‘no hire’ job market that’s leaving Americans unemployed longer

The unemployment rate is low and the economy is still growing, but those out of work face the slowest pace of hiring in more ...
The Financial Express

US Unemployment claims drop showing labor market resilience – Will Fed go for another rate cut?

New data suggests that the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits dropped to around 218,000 in the week ending ...

The Job Market Is Cooling but Not Collapsing (if Private Data Can Be Trusted)

The federal government shutdown canceled a second straight jobs report, but private data sources suggest the labor market has ...

Furloughed federal workers face delays getting unemployment pay during shutdown

TXTG101-103, US Government Shutdown Unemployment, are on hold. To publish 9 a.m. ET on Saturday For more than two weeks now during the government shutdown, Imelda Avila-Thomas has been trying in vain ...
Lawrence Journal-World

U.S. labor department terminates Kansas unemployment fraud prevention grant because of DEI

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, left, and Kansas Department of Labor secretary Amber Shultz, right, announce the launch of the state’s new online unemployment system Nov. 22, 2024, at the Statehouse in ...