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Month: December 2021

Losing your job because of vaccine mandates? You can collect unemployment benefits in these states.

By Tami Luhby, CNN Only a few months after terminating federal pandemic unemployment benefits early, several GOP-led states are now expanding jobless payments to a different group of people affected by Covid-19: unvaccinated residents who are losing their jobs due to vaccine mandates. At least three red states — Iowa, Tennessee and Florida — have

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Jobs report preview: Did solid hiring draw in more workers?

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation is surging. Supply chains are snarled. And yet economists predict that America’s employers delivered another month of solid job growth in November on the strength of steady consumer spending. Beneath the headline figures on hiring and unemployment, though, lurks a potentially even more consequential question:

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Jobs report preview: Did solid hiring draw in more workers?

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation is surging. Supply chains are snarled. And yet economists predict that America’s employers delivered another month of solid job growth in November on the strength of steady consumer spending. Beneath the headline figures on hiring and unemployment, though, lurks a potentially even more consequential question:

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