Politico's Chris Frates on who's to blame for ending unemployment benefits July 1, 2010— -- More than 1.3 million unemployed workers won't be getting their next round of unemployment benefits, ...

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The Senate has decided not to go forward with a vote on legislation that would have extended sequestration cuts through 2024 to fund unemployment benefits. Federal lawmakers have been working to ...

Oregon Senate Bill 916 would grant unemployment benefits to striking workers after two weeks. If passed, Oregon would be the first state to allow striking public employees to receive unemployment ...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which President Obama signed on Feb. 17, 2009, contains a major extension of unemployment benefits. States administer unemployment based on federal ...

On Tuesday, the Senate failed to muster up the votes to pass an extension of unemployment insurance. Some 1.3 million workers lost their jobless benefits on Dec. 28 when an emergency program to help ...

On Unemployed Friends 2.0, a message board for people who have been out of work long enough to exhaust all emergency unemployment insurance — “99ers,” as some have taken to calling themselves — users ...

In late March, Congress approved the CARES Act, which was passed in an effort to keep the economy afloat amid the spread of the coronavirus. A major component of the CARES Act was a $600 weekly ...

Wednesday marks the beginning of the end of extended unemployment benefits for about 2 million Americans. A bill to extend the benefits past the end of December was blocked by House Republicans in mid ...

Two Democrats cited concerns about added costs to local governments already facing financial uncertainty before joining Republicans in voting against a bill that would make Oregon the first state in ...