HRW: Foreigners ‘live in constant fear’ in South Africa
Foreign nationals in South Africa suffer “routine” harassment, violence and discrimination by locals and government authorities, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday. The group...
Tag : Unemployment
A $1.5 Trillion Compromise That Democrats Can’t Ignore
The pandemic brought on the most quick and severe recession that the United States has ever experienced. The economy shed over 22 million jobs in...
A Cataclysm of Hunger, Disease and Illiteracy
We think of Covid-19 as killing primarily the elderly around the world, but in poor countries it is more cataclysmic than that. It is killing...
Why Unemployment Claims May Be Overcounted by Millions
Economic statistics were never designed to measure the sudden shutdown and restart of large segments of the U.S. economy. Still, if there is one question...
A Job That Isn’t Hard to Get in a Pandemic: Swindlers’ Helper
After the fitness center where Denise Newton worked closed down in April because of the coronavirus, she posted her résumé online to look for a...
How to Birth a New American Theater
When New York City shut down on March 12, its theaters were preparing for a busy spring season: big names on Broadway, Tony Awards mania,...
Unemployment Benefits Program Has Issues With Fraud and Math
Two weeks ago, shortly after she advertised an apartment for rent in the Bay Area, Barbara Lamb found five envelopes from the state’s unemployment office...
Unemployment Benefits Are at Heart of a Debate Over Hiring
When Clips & Clamps, a metal forming company in Plymouth, Mich., advertised for a die setter and operator last year, more than a hundred applications...
Strike. This Could Be Our Last Stand.
Labor Day hit with an extra knife-twist of cruel irony this year, in an America that is barely trying to pretend anymore that the plight...
The Fed Enabled a Record Expansion. Trump is Taking Credit.
WASHINGTON — President Trump is using the prepandemic economy to make a case for his re-election, highlighting time and again that unemployment rates fell to...