In three weeks, the $600 federal jobless benefit that has been added to the state’s unemployment checks will end. These payments have put $18 billion a week, a total of $288 billion for 16 weeks, into the world’s largest economy since the COVID-19 crisis began....
May 28, 2024
Consumers are more likely to expect an expansion of public assistance programs than they were a year ago. Among the programs about which they have increased optimism are federal student aid, student debt forgiveness, federal welfare programs, unemployment benefits and the federal minimum wage, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Center for Microeconomic Data […]
July 12, 2020
In three weeks, the $600 federal jobless benefit that has been added to the state’s unemployment checks will end. These payments have put $18 billion a week, a total of...
