More than 25 million Americans are about to lose most of their income thanks to the looming expiration of the $600-per-week expanded federal unemployment benefits. Congress created the extra benefits in March so that people who lost their jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic would be able to stay home […]
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President Trump and Seema Verma, the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, at a White House meeting in 2017, have taken few steps to alert consumers to their options for health coverage. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press) As millions of people lose jobs in the coronavirus outbreak, […]
“Is there a limit to how much we can care for each other?” That’s the radical question at the heart of economist Pavlina Tcherneva’s timely new book, ”The Case for a Job Guarantee,” due to be published this month. The 128-page book went to print in December when the U.S. […]
A $600 per week lifeline is about to run out of rope, threatening to leave millions of American families at the end of theirs. The pandemic unemployment assistance payments, which were approved in March as part of the government’s fiscal stimulus package, known as the CARES Act, are set to […]