unemployment benefits
Posted Apr 9, 2022, 8:06 am
Monica Peone
/Rawhide Press
Under federal and tribal policies, benefits such as housing subsidies and food assistance are cut even for people earning poverty wages - but several programs are now operating or are being developed to address some of the underlying issues.... Read more»
Posted May 3, 2021, 11:02 am
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
Gov. Ducey has reinstated a requirement that Arizonans show they’re looking for work in order to qualify for unemployment benefits, a qualification he set aside last year as tens of thousands of people suddenly found themselves jobless during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.... Read more»
Posted Feb 9, 2021, 12:09 pm
Kiera Riley
/Cronkite News
Activists around the country rallied in support of the Raise the Wage Act – a provision that would eventually raise the federally required minimum wage to $15 an hour – included in President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package. More than 1.6 million workers, mainly in the restaurant industry, are paid a minimum wage in the U.S. as low as $7.25 on the federal level and, more recently in Arizona, $12.15 an hour.... Read more»
Posted Feb 4, 2021, 12:12 pm
Haleigh Kochanski
/Cronkite News
Six Arizona mayors were among hundreds who urged Congress to pass a $1.9 trillion pandemic-relief bill that includes $350 billion in aid for state and local governments. ... Read more»
Posted Dec 22, 2020, 11:35 am
Laura Olson & Ariana Figueroa/Arizona Mirror
Congress passed a massive bipartisan emergency relief bill Monday night that's intended to aid Americans affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Summaries from House Democratic appropriators say it includes:... Read more»
Posted Dec 21, 2020, 11:23 am
Laura Olson
/Arizona Mirror
A deal on a coronavirus relief package finally emerged on Sunday night, after members of Congress resolved a days-long impasse over a provision sought by U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania to ensure that several temporary Federal Reserve lending programs will end this year.... Read more»
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Posted Dec 1, 2020, 4:29 pm
Ariana Figueroa
/Arizona Mirror
In a Tuesday press conference, lawmakers unveiled a four-month, $908 billion proposal that would fund transportation, the paycheck protection program to help businesses pay their employees, food assistance and coronavirus testing centers.... Read more»
Posted Oct 5, 2020, 1:12 pm
Paul Kiel & Jeff Ernsthausen/ProPublica
After a pause for the pandemic, debt buyers are back in the courts, suing debtors by the thousands.... Read more»
Posted Sep 29, 2020, 7:25 pm
Rob Winder
/Cronkite News
Despite the improvements, the Census Bureau numbers show Arizona’s poverty rate remained higher than the nation, where the rate was 12.3% last year.... Read more»
Posted Sep 9, 2020, 4:42 pm
Allison Stevens
/Arizona Mirror
The GOP plan failed to include direct aid to cities and states, a priority for Democrats, or rental relief or nutrition assistance.... Read more»
Posted Aug 26, 2020, 5:26 pm
B. Poole
/Courthouse News Service
Arizona’s COVID-19 reproduction number — a measure of whether a disease is spreading or contracting, also called R0 — is the lowest in the nation, by one count, just eight weeks after the state was in headlines as a coronavirus hot spot.... Read more»
Posted Aug 18, 2020, 10:37 am
Tim Henderson
/Stateline
Seven states have received approval for President Donald Trump’s offer of a $300 weekly benefit for unemployed workers, and others are considering it after clarification that states don’t have to pay an additional $100. ... Read more»
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Posted Aug 12, 2020, 4:02 pm
Jacob Fischler
/Arizona Mirror
Governors, lawmakers and state unemployment agencies on Monday wrestled with confusion created by President Donald Trump's executive action extending unemployment benefits, and it appeared some states could settle for $300 a week in benefits instead of the $400 that the president touted.... Read more»
Posted Jul 15, 2020, 10:44 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
Legal advocates are preparing for what could be a tsunami of evictions in the next few weeks when a temporary state ban on most evictions expires. But there is evidence that hundreds of evictions have been filed in violation of a federal ban in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic.... Read more»
Posted Jun 30, 2020, 11:00 am
Blake Freas
/Cronkite News
Arizona posted one of the sharpest unemployment drops in the country in May, falling from a historic high of 13.4% in April to 8.9% last month, according to the latest numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.... Read more»
Posted Jun 3, 2020, 5:01 pm
Laura Gómez
/Arizona Mirror
Arizona parents who pay child support have received hardly any of the state and federal unemployment aid that they are entitled to because the Arizona Department of Economic Security overcharged them for their child support obligation, according to the state agency.... Read more»