Come the end of November, some 2 million jobless workers won’t be able to rely on their unemployment check unless Congress again extends the aid. But with the GOP regaining the House, the odds of that extension just got a lot l…
Initial jobless claims unexpectedly rose 13,000 to 462,000, but continuing claims plunged another 112,000 to 4.4 million, the Labor Department announced Thursday. Some of the decline in continuing claims comes from people who have exhausted their benef…
When DailyFinance first met Candido Gonzalez last December for our “New Homeless” report, the New Yorker had been laid off for two years from his job of 19 years — and living at the Bowery Mission. Today, the father of two fin…
The economy lost 95,000 jobs in September, because the private sector hired only 64,000 workers while governments cut 159,000. The jobless rate remains 9.6%. Minus the usual boosts from housing and consumers, the U.S. still lac…
“More food stamps? Or more paychecks?” Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich suggests that’s how the GOP should couch the national policy debate before the midterm elections. But will demonizing programs that aid the poor h…