Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, the Republican whip, argued that unemployment benefits dissuade people from job-hunting “because people are being paid even though they’re not working.” Unemployment insurance ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A Bay Area lawmaker is speaking out against President Donald Trump's executive order to add an additional $400 a week in unemployment benefits. RELATED: CA lawmaker unsatisfied ...

Talking Points Memo untangles the mess unfolding in the U.S. Senate over the expansion of unemployment benefits: The push to revive jobless benefits for some 1.4 million long-term unemployed Americans ...

An additional 1.5 million people received benefits under an extended unemployment compensation program approved by Congress last year. That's as of March 14, the latest data available. As a proportion ...

JEFFERSON CITY-- The Republican super majority in the Missouri Senate ran into its first public kerfuffle today as a group of conservatives led by Sen. Jim Lembke, R-Lemay, blocked a bill that would ...

Changelessness we can't believe in. Not much of a slogan, I admit, but a pretty fair statement of where we're at after the president's tax deal with congressional Republicans. It's not that the deal ...

The extension of the unemployment benefit payment period (designated benefit days) has resulted in longer periods of unemployment, but only a minority ...