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D.C. activists hoping to jump-start organizing among the unemployed

July 23, 2020 By Sean Sullivan

The Claudia Jones School for Political Education recently hosted an Unemployment and Tenant Organizing Town Hall for residents in the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia (DMV) area.

GOP says workers are lazy, don’t deserve HEROES Act unemployment help

July 22, 2020 By Tim Libretti

Are the majority of Americans lazy and averse to work? Would they prefer not to work and to enjoy a free ride from the government? Republicans say yes.

People of color face mass homelessness as eviction moratoriums end

July 22, 2020 By Center for Public Integrity

Black and brown Americans—the very people who are more likely to succumb to coronavirus or lose their jobs because of it—are disproportionately on the brink of also losing the four walls that public health officials have...

Despite Trump’s happy talk, 2.4 million more claim jobless benefits

July 16, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

Another 2,432,380 people filed for unemployment insurance benefits last week, the Labor Department reported.

As coronavirus rages, official jobless numbers near 33 million

July 9, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

Daily U.S. infections higher than at any point in pandemic as 2.3 million more apply for unemployment benefits.