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Given the renewed attention on the possibility of a $15 federal minimum wage, it's worth noting that "$15/hour" looks very different in 2021 than it did when the "Fight for
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A year ago, I did a thread on my efforts to diversify my source list. I tracked the race and gender of my sources again this year. In the interest
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The stimulus deal should be enough to avoid the immediate "cliff" that would have pushed millions into poverty and threatened to plunge the economy back into a recession. But it
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U.S. employers added 245,000 jobs in November. But that still leaves a gap of 9.8 million jobs since before the pandemic, a hole bigger than in the worst of the
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The recovery is slowing. The virus is surging. And economists say that if a Congress doesn’t act by the end of the year, it could lead to economic damage that
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The Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program has helped millions of Americans who are left out of the normal unemployment system, and has helped keep the economy from suffering even worse damage.It
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The $600 a week in extra unemployment benefits ran out in July. Congress and the president can’t agree on how to replace them. For many Americans, it may already be
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U.S. employers added or brought back 1.8 million jobs in July, down from 4.8 million in June. For perspective, we're still down 12.9 million since February. The number of people
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Tomorrow morning, @BEA_News will release its prelim. estimate of second-quarter gross domestic product. Not much drama on the headline: It will show a historic decline in economic output.But the way
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Republicans want to extend additional unemployment benefits but cut them substantially: to about $200/week for the typical worker, down from $600/week for all workers right now.More on the plan and
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The $600 supplement to unemployment benefits has allowed laid-off workers to pay rent and buy groceries, and has helped prop up the broader economy.Now we are mere days away from
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U.S. payrolls rose by 4.8 million jobs in June as employers brought back furloughed workers.Key caveat: This data was collected in mid-June, *before* the recent surge in cases.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/business/stock-market-today-c
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