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With millions of Americans out work and fewer positions open, the job market is more competitive than ever.
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With millions of Americans out work and fewer positions open, the job market is more competitive than ever.
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose for the first time since the pandemic hit in March.
If you receive federal unemployment payments, in addition to state unemployment, you may have noticed your money wasn't in your account this week.
The unemployment rate fell to 11%, but still, 1.4 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week.
Already in Brooklyn last week alone, the Department of Labor reported 13,488 unemployment insurance claims.
Despite weekly unemployment claims being better than expected, 1.5 million more Americans applied for benefits last week.
Businesses are in the process of reopening this week, and while many are struggling, some are getting a new boost from federal dollars.
The U.S. Department of Labor announced Friday the unemployment rate fell from 14.7% to 13.3% with 2.5 million jobs added in May.
The unemployment rate took a surprising drop, but while hope exists the road to recovery remains uncertain.
Many are receiving the card and mistakenly thinking it's a scam. This, as another 2 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week.
The governor said a total of 1.17 million unemployment claims have been filed. Of those, 911,000 have been fulfilled, totaling $4.3 billion in payouts.
The total number of people applying for aid to more than 43 million, on a seasonally adjusted basis, since the coronavirus pandemic spread across the nation.
More than 4 million U.S. workers filed for jobless benefits last week, the Labor Department said Thursday. That brings the total number of people applying for aid to more than 40 million since the coronavirus pandemic spread across the nation.
Jill Schlesinger, certified financial planner and CBS News business analyst, looks at how to devise a game plan for paying bills when money is tight.
The Labor Department says nearly three million Americans filed unemployment claims last week. That brings the nationwide total to 36 million since the pandemic erupted in March.
As states look at slowly reopening, some residents are still waiting for financial relief. Hundreds of thousands of people haven't received unemployment checks in New Jersey.
The wait seems never ending for many unemployed residents in New Jersey.
A staggering 29 million Americans stopped working in April as the spreading coronavirus shuttered stores, factories and offices, canceled events, and brought transit around the country to a sudden stop.
New unemployment numbers are out. Nearly 3.2 million more people filed for jobless benefits last week.
Frustration is mounting for people in the Tri-State Area who are trying to apply for unemployment due to the coronavirus pandemic.
With the newly reported 3.8 million, the total jobless has risen to about 30 million people in the past six weeks.
The Labor Department's latest report says roughly 3.8 million Americans filed for unemployment last week. The figure, comparatively lower than the last five weeks, brings the six-week total to 30 million U.S. workers filing jobless claims.
There is big news for people laid off and looking for health care insurance.
Many New York and New Jersey residents are losing hope, and are out of cash.
More than 1.2 million New Yorkers have filed unemployment claims since the coronavirus outbreak began.
