Months after Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed the proposal, lawmakers in Sacramento are trying again to extend unemployment benefits to California workers who are on strike. Under Senate Bill 1116, introduced ...

Congress adjourns this week for the July Fourth recess without having passed a bill to extend unemployment insurance benefits to 1.3 million people who started losing them this month. Democrats have ...

When Congress returns next week, Democratic leaders will take up legislation to extend unemployment benefits for the eighth time since 2008. Much of the fight to pass the bill will revolve around ...

There are two Americas. In one America, working stiffs wonder if it makes sense for the government to pay unemployment benefits for 99 weeks. In this America, folks have a lot of sympathy for those ...

Washington state’s unemployment insurance system has a crystal-clear mission: to provide a temporary income to workers who lost their jobs through no fault of their own. The state Senate should reject ...

On Tuesday, the Senate failed to muster up the votes to pass an extension of unemployment insurance. Some 1.3 million workers lost their jobless benefits on Dec. 28 when an emergency program to help ...

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