unemployment
Republican governors yank unemployment aid even as jobs shortfall continues
June 4, 2021In a move that will slow the recovery, GOP-dominated states turn down $300 in weekly federal help for their unemployed workers.
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Bosses and Republicans use fake ‘labor shortage’ to cut unemployment benefits
May 12, 2021It’s not that people don’t want to work—it’s that they don’t want to work for so little.
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Big biz answer to low April job numbers: End unemployment benefits!
May 7, 2021Now is not the time to cut benefits or slash the $4 trillion economic revival programs laid out by the administration.
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Data confirms what we already knew: Pandemic hit people of color harder
March 12, 2021“I think what we’re going to see once the dust settles is that the racial wealth gap has actually increased.”
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American Rescue Act: Government of, by, and for the people
March 9, 2021Biden’s $1.9 trillion package, about to become law, breathes life into the idea that government can be a good and necessary thing.
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