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Andrew Stettner, an unemployment insurance expert and senior fellow at the Century Foundation think tank, said the number may be closer to 14 million because joblessness has spiked since Thanksgiving.
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, also called the COVID-19 Stimulus Package or American Rescue Plan, is a US$1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill passed by the 117th United States Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 11, 2021, to speed up the country's recovery from the economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and recession. [1]
A series of key coronavirus relief measures is set to expire soon even as much of the U.S. is still suffering deeply because of the pandemic. Perhaps most crucial are expanded unemployment ...
According to Michele Evermore, senior policy advisor for unemployment insurance at the U.S. Department of Labor, individuals who test positive for COVID-19 and stay home to recover are not ...
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 is a $2.3 trillion [1] spending bill that combines $900 billion in stimulus relief for the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with a $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill for the 2021 federal fiscal year (combining 12 separate annual appropriations bills) and prevents a government shutdown.
The unemployment insurance program is a benefit for workers who have lost their jobs. The maximum duration of benefits has increased from 26 to 99 weeks in some states. Unemployment extensions across the U.S. are typically not a concern due to stringent policies that state unemployment agencies have enacted in recent years.
Half of the states planning to cancel the extra $300 in weekly federal unemployment benefits this month could cost their local economies $12.3 billion, according to a new study.
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, [b] [1] also known as the CARES Act, [2] is a $2.2 trillion economic stimulus bill passed by the 116th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump on March 27, 2020, in response to the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.