#UnEmployment

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

Deep breath. In the last five weeks, more than 24 million workers applied for unemployment insurance. That is more than one in seven workers. 1/ All else equal, job losses

Jim Bianco

biancoresearch

Initial claims(1/4) Continuing claims (orange, new high) and a projection over the next three weeks (gray).(2/4) In the last three weeks, 10.27% of the work force lost its job (thick

The New York Times

nytimes

The coronavirus has devastated the U.S. economy. In just 5 weeks, more than 26 million people have filed for unemployment. Here are 3 ways to understand the scale of the

ACLU

ACLU

BREAKING: Trump is proposing a rule allowing federally funded homeless shelters to turn away trans and gender non-conforming people — in the midst of the highest unemployment rates our country

NYS Department of Labor

NYSLabor

NEW: We've updated our unemployment application so New Yorkers can apply for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance without having to apply for traditional unemployment insurance first & get denied.This means we'll process

Justin Wolfers

JustinWolfers

WARNING: The jobs report numbers you're about to see reflect the state of the economy an eternity (three weeks) ago.Payrolls fell -701k, and unemployment rose nearly a full point to

William J. Luther

WilliamJLuther

Last week, I reported that increasing unemployment benefits by $600 per week through July would discourage workers from returning to work sooner, if it is safe to do so. 1/nhttps://www.aier.org/article/exploding-unemployment-benefits-will-delay-recov

Patricia Cohen

PatcohenNYT

Unemployment insurance update. Nearly a month after Washington rushed through emergency pandemic assistance, millions of laid-off workers can't apply or haven't got any money..... Only 10 states so far have

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

Last week, 3.1 million workers applied for unemployment benefits. This is the tenth week in a row that unemployment claims are more than 3 times the *worst* week of the

Glenn Fleishman

GlennF

This is a terrible NPR story. First, unemployment benefits in normal times aren’t paid by taxpayers. They’re paid from a fund in each state that’s built from mandatory employer contributions.

Jeff Stein

JStein_WaPo

NEW: Republicans' $1T stimulus is being held up over competing ideas for replacing unemployment insurance, GOP officials tell me & @ericawerner Tl;dr -- Some in GOP want complex "wage replacement"

Socially Distant Miguel

Property_Funder

To those predicting a prolonged, big fall in house prices. Some thoughts for you. Historically you need two key ingredients for major falls in UK prices. The first is unemployment

Isk 1312 💙

Iskaudiir

Regarding the reasons I'm upset right now: the department of the state that handles unemployment has come to the conclusion that I don't deserve unemployment benefits anymore. And that wouldn't

Mississippi Department of Employment Security

MDESMS

Q: Once I file my claim, do I need to do anything else? A: TO MAINTAIN ELIGIBILITY:You must timely file a weekly certification online at http://mdes.ms.gov or via the MDES

Rebecca Vallas

rebeccavallas

Holy hell. Politico is reporting that @SenRickScott, back when he was governor, DELIBERATELY BUILT FLORIDA’S UNEMPLOYMENT SYSTEM TO FAIL.“It was about making it harder for people to get benefits so

Nick Bunker

nick_bunker

Wow, big drop in unemployment rate to 8.4%.And that was for good reasons as LFPR went up.EPOP up by 1.4 percentage points! Private-sector payrolls up by 1 million in August,