The unemployment rate fell to 10.2 percent in August compared with 10.9 percent in July.

“If you pay for unemployment, you’ll get more unemployment.” “There are really no surprises in what’s happening here,” he continued.

regular state unemployment insurance benefits, including freelancers and gig workers; Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), providing additional coverage beyond the regular 26 weeks most states provide; and Federal Pandemic Unemployment

While job growth has fluctuated, few layoffs have been a key theme in 2026, keeping the unemployment rate near 4 percent.

The bill says any person convicted of a federal offense related to their conduct at and during the course of a protest would become ineligible for federal pandemic unemployment compensation or any other federal supplemental unemployment benefits during

Americans who receive unemployment payments are being warned that the compensation is taxable. Federal law dictates that unemployment compensation is taxable and must be reported on a 2020 federal income tax return.

States can choose to allocate funds to satisfy the 25 percent requirement, and unemployment claimants would get an extra $400 a week.

“We have unemployment that is worse than we've seen since the Great Depression.” Nearly 3 million Californians were unemployed when the original round of enhanced unemployment benefits expired on July 25, according to the U.S.

He said that states would be asked to cover a quarter of the cost of the enhanced unemployment benefit.

Eric Holcomb last month announced Indiana would pull out of the federal government's COVID-19 unemployment program.

Department of Labor currently prohibits state unemployment programs from denying unemployment claims to a person who lost a job even if the individual receives income from multiple sources.

“Indeed, the notion of a winter of discontent has taken on new and more distressing meaning” in light of the unemployment figures, Hamrick said. Recent data suggest the labor market recovery has stalled. 

Pelosi later said that she will support a $600-per-week unemployment program until the jobless rate declines. “If the unemployment goes down, then that number can go down,” Pelosi said Monday.

The federal unemployment benefits program, which was passed in the CARES Act in March, ran out at the end of last month.

Among the most contentious issue is the extra $600-per-week unemployment benefits that were passed under the CARES Act in March. "The president is very concerned about the expiration of the unemployment insurance," Mnuchin told "This Week."

Meadows agreed to extend enhanced unemployment insurance in some form and helping the labor market reopen.

Of the unemployment benefit proposal, Senate Republicans said they are merely introducing the plan as a starting point for negotiations with Democrats.

Expanded unemployment payments included under the $2.2 trillion pandemic relief measure passed by Congress in March might be hindering U.S. economic recovery, according to Goldman Sachs.

Canada's current unemployment rate is 10.2 percent, up sharply from 5.6 percent in February, the last full month before the coronavirus outbreak hit.

Surveyed unemployment in the nation of 1.4 billion was 6 percent in April, but many analysts say true unemployment must be far higher.

Nationwide, the week of March 28 saw a record 6.87 million Americans apply for unemployment benefits.

Known as the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) program, this is the additional federal benefit of $600 per week over and above regular and state unemployment insurance payments and other forms of pandemic unemployment assistance.

"In addition to the large fall in hours worked, employment in Victoria also decreased by 42,400 people, and the unemployment rate increased to 7.1 percent."

Capitol Hill will soon debate whether to extend enhanced unemployment benefits beyond this month. President Donald Trump says he doesn't want anything that discourages people from going back to work.

The governor pointed to California's unemployment rate of 16.7 percent and compared it to Georgia's 7.6 percent rate.

The unemployment rate dropped to 11.1 percent in June from 14.7 percent in April.

The Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation provides up to 13 weeks of additional unemployment benefits to people who previously collected state or federal unemployment compensation but exhausted those benefits.

While Florida is ending the $300 supplement, it is maintaining its participation in other federal unemployment programs—such as the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation, and Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation—which

For this calendar year, the government expects the unemployment rate to hit 9.8 percent, dropping to 7.8 percent next year based on forecasts by 13 private-sector economists.

Schumer, meanwhile, criticized President Donald Trump after he touted the U.S. economic recovery on Twitter, saying that "8.4% unemployment is nothing to brag about." 8.4% unemployment is nothing to brag about. https://t.co/2HPkedFLy5 — Chuck