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President Trump has extended an executive order to prioritize unemployed Americans for jobs in the United States rather than allowing businesses to import foreign visa workers.

President Donald Trump declined to sign the coronavirus relief and stimulus bill on Saturday evening as he pushed for higher stimulus payments of $2000 rather than $600, meaning millions of Americans would exhaust their unemployment benefits.

President Donald Trump on Saturday demanded Congress deliver better aid to Americans suffering from the coronavirus pandemic as he rejected the bloated relief bill passed before Christmas.

Swedish Professor of Economics Mats Hammarstedt has rejected claims that mass migration can be economically beneficial over the long term, citing problems of integration.

After bailing out the nation’s biggest banks, Congress is now hesitant on whether to provide Americans with a second round of stimulus checks as 24.5 million remain jobless or underemployed, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said in a speech on Friday. 

More bad news for the labor market.

Swedish Moderate Party MP Hanif Bali has claimed that of 7,000 Afghan “high school amnesty” migrants in Sweden, just 68 have full-time work.

Economists had forecast 724,000.

Amazon, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, is praising a President Bill Clinton-appointed federal judge’s decision that requires President Trump’s administration to give two-year work permits to illegal aliens enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. 

Less than half of what economists had forecast.

Tucker Carlson of the Fox News Channel says Senate Republicans are attempting to pack foreign workers into high-paying U.S. jobs while nearly 18 million Americans are jobless.

Jobless claims fell by 75,000 in the holiday week, breaking the two week long streak of rising claims.

The United Kingdom’s economic emergency is “just beginning”, according to Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, who predicted that unemployment will rise by over one million in the coming months.

Worse than expected.

A scam caused California taxpayer money that was supposed to go toward COVID-related unemployment benefits to be sent to at least 20,000 prisoners, including well-known convicted murderers Scott Peterson and serial killer Cary Stayner.

Economists had expected jobless claims to inch up to 710,000.

Trump’s America First economy brought Americans together.

The votes of the nation’s 30 million small business owners and many of the 60 million who work for them will go to the presidential candidate who can get the economy back on its feet as fast as possible.

President Donald Trump has had one of the most consequential first terms of any president in American history.

Jobless claims made a significant move downward.

Unemployment claims were falling even while th “60 Minutes” star insisted otherwise.

New claims for unemployment benefits tumbled by much more than expected to 787,000 in the week ended October 17.

Swedish economics professor Johan Eklund has criticised the government’s failure to integrate migrants who arrived in 2015 into the labour force.

With no hope of aid from Capitol Hill, employers accelerated layoffs in early October.

Very little improvement in jobless claims.

The Swedish Public Employment Office has revealed that 43 per cent of foreigners without work lack a high school education, compared to just 18 per cent of native-born unemployed.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani boasted Saturday his country is beating advanced economies such as Germany during the coronavirus pandemic. However, in a country where telling the truth is regarded as an act of sedition, he made no mention of some 60 million Iranians now relying on state aid to survive.

Nancy Pelosi waited for bad news for the president to pass the airline bailout — just likes waited for Trump to be impeached to pass the USMCA.

Economists had forecast 894,000 jobs and a decline in the unemployment rate to 8.2 percent.

The statistics of the wildfire season in the western United States are grim: 7.4 million acres have been charred and 40 people have perished. And this year, California’s premier wine industry is also a victim.

Unemployment rose for a fifth straight month in Europe in August, narrowing the gap with the U.S. The continued rise in unemployment across the continent is feeding concerns that extensive government support programs won’t be able keep many businesses hit

Unemployment claims are still very high and have not made much progress in several weeks.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Squeezed by limits on attendance at its theme parks and other restrictions due to the pandemic, The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday it planned to lay off 28,000 workers in its parks division in California and Florida.

Initial claims for unemployment benefits climbed last week.

A small improvement, slightly bettter than expeced, in new claims for unemployment benefits.

Back in June the Fed’s median forecast was for the economy to shrink 6.5 percent. Now it sees only a 3.7 percent contraction.