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COVID & Unemployment

What you need to know about the job market during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Big jump in unemployment benefit claims from gig workers

by Erika Beras
Jan 21, 2021
More people are relying on gig work, which puts a lot of risk on the workers themselves.
An Uber driver participates in a car rally calling for basic employment rights in August 2020 in Los Angeles.
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Unemployment claims dip to 900,000

by Associated Press
Jan 21, 2021
The data underscores that President Joe Biden has inherited an economy that faltered this winter as virus cases spiked.
A person walks by a store displaying a sale sign on Jan. 8, 2021 in New York City.
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Unemployment insurance is broken. What would it take to fix it?

by Samantha Fields
Jan 20, 2021
Making the unemployment system a federal program could help reduce some of the huge racial disparities that currently exist.
Some economists are saying it is time for the federal government to take over the unemployment insurance system.
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As poverty rises, South Florida organization for the homeless starts feeding neighbors, too

by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban
Jan 19, 2021
The number of people showing up for free hot meals has more than doubled since the pandemic began, the CEO of HOPE South Florida says.
A rise in poverty and homelessness has become a major concern as the pandemic recession has left millions of people without jobs. Above, a person in Miami sleeps on a sidewalk in 2001.
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Rental assistance is on the way, but will it come in time?

by Samantha Fields
Jan 18, 2021
Right now the only thing keeping millions of renters in their homes is the CDC’s eviction moratorium, which expires Jan. 31.
Demonstrators march in the street during the Cancel Rent and Mortgages rally on June 30, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Chinese businesses take stock a year after their pandemic pivot

by Jennifer Pak
Jan 14, 2021
A tea shop supplier and a brush manufacturer switched to making masks after the lockdown. But the gamble didn't pay off.
Manufacturer Qian Wensheng is stuck with rolls of substandard melt-blown fabric that he cannot use in face masks.
Courtesy of Qian Wensheng
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Pandemic could cause twice as much homelessness as the Great Recession

by Samantha Fields
Jan 14, 2021
COVID-related unemployment could cause about 600,000 people to become homeless over the next three years, according to a report from the Economic Roundtable.
Squares painted on the ground encourage homeless people to social distance at a city-sanctioned encampment in San Francisco.
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How much unemployment is there? Depends on your wage bracket.

by Jasmine Garsd
Jan 14, 2021
Industries like hospitality, which tend to be low wage and employ more Black and Latinx workers, have been particularly hard hit by the pandemic.
People wait at a food-distribution site in New York City. Food insecurity is a painful effect of the "K-shaped recovery."
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Unemployment claims back up to highest level since August

by Associated Press
Jan 14, 2021
After declining over the summer, weekly claims have been stuck above 700,000 since September.
The number of people seeking unemployment aid soared last week to 965,000.
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Job openings lag as uncertainty about pandemic, politics persists

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Jan 12, 2021
January is usually peak job-hunting season.
Amid persistent economic doldrums and widespread uncertainty, few companies entered 2021 with expansion in mind.
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