US economy has added 13 million jobs during President Joe Biden’s first term
No other U.S. president has presided over greater job growth in a single term.
By Oliver Willis - June 02, 2023No other U.S. president has presided over greater job growth in a single term.
By Oliver Willis - June 02, 2023Rep. George Santos is a co-sponsor of the bill, which would cut funding to crack down on unemployment fraud.
By Josh Israel - May 10, 2023253,000 jobs were added across the country in April 2023.
By Oliver Willis - May 05, 2023The latest jobs report shows unemployment at its lowest level since 1969.
By Oliver Willis - February 03, 2023The latest jobs report shows that the unemployment rate has also reached a 50-year low.
By Oliver Willis - January 06, 2023The move represents the largest pay raise for federal workers in 20 years.
By Oliver Willis - September 01, 2022Unemployment has fallen across the country — to rates lower than those that Trump left office with — following actions taken by the Biden-Harris Administration.
By Oliver Willis - August 22, 2022Job creation numbers from July’s jobs report were more than double of what was anticipated, defying negative perceptions about the economy.
By Associated Press - August 05, 2022Unemployment rates have held steadily for months at the lowest marks since before the pandemic.
By Associated Press - July 30, 2022‘Americans are getting back to work,’ President Joe Biden said.
By Oliver Willis - March 24, 2022The U.S. economy has added 7 million jobs since President Joe Biden took office.
By Oliver Willis - January 07, 2022The U.S. economy is expected to grow by nearly 8% between 2020 and 2022 — ‘a direct effect’ of the American Rescue Plan, according to a new report.
By Nick Vachon - December 14, 2021The U.S. Department of Labor reported Wednesday that employers posted a near-record 11 million job openings in October.
By Associated Press - December 09, 2021In the eight months since California’s rental assistance program began, fraud has been virtually nonexistent.
By Associated Press - November 28, 2021The latest numbers show again that Republicans’ claims about job growth under President Joe Biden are false.
By Josh Israel - November 05, 2021After ending pandemic-related unemployment benefits, some Republican officials now want assistance for workers who were fired for refusing to get vaccinated.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - October 25, 2021Since passage of the American Rescue Plan, unemployment has dropped to its lowest point since the coronavirus pandemic began.
By Josh Israel - October 21, 2021Families with no experience with food insecurity are suddenly in need, without knowledge of charitable options or experience navigating government assistance programs.
By Associated Press - September 26, 2021But Alabama opted out of President Joe Biden’s unemployment supplement program months ago.
By Josh Israel - August 24, 2021Study after study has shown the opposite.
By Josh Israel - August 23, 2021Republican state lawmakers are reportedly circulating a bill that would grant unemployment to those who quit over workplace vaccine requirements, weeks after trying to end benefits for others.
By Josh Israel - August 13, 2021GOP Gov. Larry Hogan tried to end a $300 federal unemployment insurance boost to workers in his state.
By Emily Singer - July 13, 2021The pandemic forced many Latinas to leave work to care not just for their children but also for extended family.
By Associated Press - June 18, 2021The number of initial unemployment claims dropped to 473,000 last week.
By Josh Israel - May 13, 2021More than 784,000 people are jobless in their states during the pandemic.
By Josh Israel - May 12, 2021Republicans are mad that people are refusing to take low-paying jobs — just not enough to raise the minimum wage.
By Josh Israel - May 10, 2021‘Before the pandemic, they were contributing to society,’ said a social worker in New York.
By Associated Press - May 05, 2021Unemployment claims are up, but Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claims are down, indicating the economy is still on the upswing.
By Donna Provencher - April 08, 2021Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says, ‘the recovery is far from complete.’
By Donna Provencher - March 25, 2021Texas, which recently lifted all reopening restrictions statewide, had the highest rate of unemployment claims in the country last week.
By Donna Provencher - March 18, 2021