By: LANCE LAMBERT As panicked states issued far-reaching shutdowns during the early days of the pandemic, the economy went into a complete tailspin. The immediate economic
Red tape, fraud-prevention efforts, and overwhelmed agencies left many Americans without benefits. By: Shawn Donnan and Reade Pickert Barb Ashbrook, who lost her part-time job
Despite political rhetoric, extra pandemic-era unemployment benefits largely don’t keep workers from accepting new jobs, according to a new paper by the Federal Reserve Bank of San
Millions of people facing evictions, remaining unemployed, standing in food bank and soup kitchen lines. Our politicians didn’t do enough. By: Jake Johnson Democratic and
The rise in poverty was triggered by a lack of new stimulus checks and the end of the $600 weekly unemployment benefit, researchers at Columbia
