A new Quinnipiac poll showed ‘no upside, no silver lining, no encouraging trend’ for Trump.

The $600 weekly unemployment insurance boost is set to expire on July 31.

Biden is trying to cut into Trump’s support on the economy.

John Cornyn once called extended unemployment benefits a ‘lifeline’ for U.S. families.

The Senate Majority Leader says he’s worried people might not go back to work during a pandemic if they continue receiving the current level of unemployment benefits.

Millions ‘will needlessly be harmed’ without more help, the groups, led by the National Governors Association, wrote this week.

Public health experts and economists warned that moving too quickly would only make things worse.

According to a report released last week, a huge number of the nation’s Black-owned businesses have shuttered due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Economic stimulus funds that were intended to keep minority-owned small businesses alive did not get to them in time or at all, leaving their owners with no other options. Some 440,000 of the […]

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A new report from Congress’ Joint Economic Committee warns that ending unemployment benefits ‘would be a human and economic catastrophe.’

‘We’re not going to make any significant progress until we have economic growth, economic justice, economic opportunity.’

While 2.5 million Americans got their jobs back after temporary virus-related layoffs, millions more remain out of work — including millions whose layoffs are permanent.

Many Republican-led states want workers to choose between their health and unemployment benefits.

‘Our broken windows are nothing compared to 400 years of broken lives,’ said the owner of a Boston beer, wine, and liquor store.

‘I think certain parts of the economy will find it very difficult to have really a lot of activity,’ Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said.

‘We are frontline workers too.’

A spokesperson for the National Republican Congressional Committee is insisting, however, that Trump will return the nation to prosperity.

States like Nebraska are reopening despite new cases of COVID-19 and increased positivity rates.

As unemployment figures show 14.7% of Americans out of work, Donald Trump bragged about the great economy that he claims he created.

Over 30 million Americans have filed jobless claims in the past six weeks.

Trump’s aides had been trying to move him onto more familiar and, they hope, safer, ground: Talking up the economy in more tightly controlled settings.

Donald Trump has used the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse for another crackdown on immigrants.

New analysis shows why more women than men are being impacted by coronavirus-related layoffs.

Sen. Kevin Cramer wants to talk about cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security as the nation battles a raging pandemic.

A record 6.6 million filed for unemployment benefits last week, weeks after Trump claimed the coronavirus outbreak would have a positive impact on jobs.

Even the Trump administration has extended social distancing guidelines until at least May, abandoning Trump’s earlier suggestion that the country could reopen by April 12.

Donald Trump said last year that he would not do anything to rebuild infrastructure unless Congress stopped doing oversight.

‘More resources need to be available to help people pay their rent and utilities’ amid the raging coronavirus outbreak, one tenant advocate says.

Trump finally caved to experts after saying for days that the crisis would soon be over and the country should be ‘raring to go by Easter.’

More than 1,000 Americans have died from coronavirus, and over 3.28 million filed for unemployment in the last week.