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  2. One Year In: The Pandemic’s Labor Impact By the Numbers - AOL

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    Political and business decisions during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have had a distinct impact on low wage workers in industries including retail. New research quantifying this impact has shown ...

  3. Unemployment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The unemployment rate (U-6) is a wider measure of unemployment, which treats additional workers as unemployed (e.g., those employed part-time for economic reasons and certain "marginally attached" workers outside the labor force, who have looked for a job within the last year, but not within the last 4 weeks).

  4. Unemployment - Wikipedia

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    Unemployment is measured by the unemployment rate, which is the number of people who are unemployed as a percentage of the labour force (the total number of people employed added to those unemployed). [3] Unemployment can have many sources, such as the following: the status of the economy, which can be influenced by a recession

  5. Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

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    A total of 36.5 million filed for unemployment insurance from March 21 to May 9. [19] The Congressional Budget Office estimated that costs for unemployment insurance claims were $49 billion in April 2020, versus $3 billion in April 2019. An estimated $27 billion of the increase was due to the $600/week increase in unemployment benefits due to ...

  6. Americans running out of unemployment benefits and part ... - AOL

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    Workers in most states have 26 weeks of paid unemployment benefits, but according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 21% of workers are now taking more than 27 weeks to find a new job, up 3% from ...

  7. Democrat lawmakers push business legislation, advocacy ... - AOL

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    Small business advocacy groups have expressed concern for the long term impact of some of the legislation, which includes increases to unemployment insurance benefits and paid family leave.

  8. Causes of unemployment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    There are a variety of domestic, foreign, market and government factors that impact unemployment in the United States. These may be characterized as cyclical (related to the business cycle) or structural (related to underlying economic characteristics) and include, among others:

  9. Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic - Wikipedia

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    The ILO estimates global unemployment to rise between 5.3 million ("low" scenario) and 24.7 million ("high" scenario) from a base level of 188 million in 2019 as a result of COVID-19's impact on global GDP growth. By comparison, global unemployment went up by 22 million during the Great Recession. Women informal workers, migrants, youth and the ...