“The fact is, right now, 30 million people have filed for unemployment insurance, the unemployment rate is probably up around 19 percent.

Twenty-six states have now gained approval from FEMA to gain enhanced unemployment payments.

Two states will accept the Trump administration's full enhanced unemployment benefit while the out-of-work in over two dozen other states will get $300 a week.

The original Jobseeker unemployment benefit was $40 (US$25) a day but this was doubled for a six-month period as part of a huge package to help soften the blow caused by the pandemic.

"The impact of the war will result in slower growth, rising inflation, and higher unemployment—a form of 'stagflation light' that will permeate the economy for the remainder of the year," RSM said in a May 5 note.

“We’re going to need to fix unemployment," he told a congressional hearing. During the past three months, more than 40 million Americans have filed for unemployment, according to statistics from the Labor Department.

China’s economic troubles, including youth unemployment and the property market crisis, have also prevented the CCP from achieving the success it had hoped for when the digital money was first rolled out, Gorrie added.

President Donald Trump took executive action on Saturday to extend the weekly enhanced unemployment payment at a reduced level.

Trump also suggested that he will extend the $600-per-month unemployment benefits for an unspecified period of time. Those were also included in the CARES Act.

“These unemployment ‘bonuses’ are going to further undermine workers’ relationship with their workplace, and they’re going to kill small businesses—both of which will make long-term unemployment much worse.”

“But we all need to keep in mind the huge hole that we’re in, in terms of jobs and unemployment.”

New York state has received a significant amount of new applications from people trying to collect unemployment insurance (UI) after businesses cut back or closed indefinitely amid the pandemic.

While the number of payrolled employees is still falling, the decline is slowing and unemployment has held at 3.9 percent in the three months to May, the ONS said.

That bill includes continuing a $300 weekly unemployment supplement until late December.

During an interview on CNN's "State of the Union,” Pelosi said she believes lawmakers can find common ground on extending jobless benefits and unemployment insurance for struggling Americans.

(Labor Department) Unemployment among some groups have recovered faster than others. 

Separately, President Joe Biden on Monday argued that the expanded unemployment benefits don’t factor into why people aren’t looking for work.

Keeping social distancing measures in place is costing the Australian economy $4 billion a week, Prime Minister Scott Morrison revealed at a press conference on May 5. Over 5 million people are on the Jobkeeper payment, with another 1 million claiming their superannuation retirement fund. “Thousands of Australian lives have been saved, when you look […]

Throughout most of recent history, Britain has had fairly low youth unemployment by European standards, but since the COVID-19 pandemic, the proportion of under-25s out of work or education has risen to one of the highest in Europe, according to analysis

Britain’s unemployment figures rose to 4.5 percent in August according to data published on Tuesday by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

But the bad news is that 15 percent is a very high level of unemployment. We have not seen unemployment this high since the great depression of the 1930s."

“One thousand people just to take the incoming unemployment calls. That’s how high the volume is and they still can’t keep up with the volume.”

Major cuts to California's budget would be required if the state puts President Donald Trump's new unemployment plan into place, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom.

This is the same rate of unemployment as October 2012, a month before President Barack Obama was reelected.

Hundreds of people line up outside a Kentucky Career Center hoping to find assistance with their unemployment claim in Frankfort, Ky., on June 18, 2020.

Acting Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling told the crowd that potentially $135 billion of the $888 billion paid out in COVID relief unemployment benefits went to fraudulent claims.

People who lost their jobs wait in line to file for unemployment at an Arkansas Workforce Center in Fayetteville, Ark., on April 6, 2020.

"Examples of situations which might cause financial hardship ... included unemployment, reduced income, injury or illness (including carer responsibilities), death of a family member, natural disaster, overcommitment or indebtedness, and vulnerability

The U.S. unemployment rate currently stands at around 11 percent, with at least 30 million Americans out of work. The Labor Department reported Thursday that about 1.4 million applied for unemployment insurance in the past week.

Currently, federal unemployment benefits provide $600 per week under the CARES Act passed in March.