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Arkansas Judge Restores $300 Pandemic Jobless Benefit Boost

An Arkansas judge on Thursday ordered the state to resume paying the $300 supplemental federal pandemic jobless benefit that the state's governor blamed for fueling a hiring crunch and decided ...

July 31, 2021BY Tom Ozimek

Ohio Judge Rejects Bid to Reinstate $300 Federal Jobless Benefit

An Ohio judge on Thursday rejected a bid to reinstate the $300 supplemental federal pandemic jobless benefit that ...

July 30, 2021BY Tom Ozimek

Florida Becomes 23rd State to End $300 Unemployment Benefit Boost to Ease Business Hiring Woes

Florida officials announced an end to the $300 weekly federal pandemic unemployment compensation supplement on May 24, making the ...

May 25, 2021BY Tom Ozimek

Number of States Dropping Federal Jobless Boost Rises to 22

This week, Indiana, Oklahoma, and Texas joined 19 other Republican-led states moving to drop the $300 weekly federal ...

May 20, 2021BY Tom Ozimek

New Hampshire Gov. Drops Federal Unemployment Boost: ‘Let’s Get Back to Work’

New Hampshire's Republican Gov. Chris Sununu said May 18 that his state will soon be ending the $300 ...

May 19, 2021BY Tom Ozimek