Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Rise to 898,000
With no hope of aid from Capitol Hill, employers accelerated layoffs in early October.
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Pelosi Rejects House Dem Unemployment Extension: Not Good ‘Strategically’ to Give GOP an ‘Out’
On Thursday’s “PBS NewsHour,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reacted to the proposal that some House Democrats have expressed support for to extend enhanced unemployment benefits, by stating that while she supports the unemployment benefit stabilization that the proposal does,
Donald Trump: I’m Giving Unemployed $400 a Week; Democrats Delivering Nothing
The president noted that through his executive order signed on Saturday, he was able to deliver an additional $400 a week to Americans on state unemployment benefits.
“That is $400 more than the democrats have provided,” Trump said. “Remember that.”
Gavin Newsom: California Can’t Afford to Pay for Extra Unemployment Benefits
California Governor Gavin Newsom said Monday that the state could not afford to pay its share of President Donald Trump’s new expansion of unemployment benefits because it did not have the money.
Pollak: Withhold Congressional Pay Until They Pass Unemployment Benefits
President Donald Trump should instruct Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin to withhold the salaries of members of Congress until they can pass a bill determining the extension of federal unemployment benefits to millions of Americans.
