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Nearly 500 Future Teachers Lose Jobs in Local Pandemic Layoff

As the economy starts to slowly reopen in Fresno County amid COVID-19 restrictions, many companies are reporting large layoffs, according to the Employment Development Department. The most recent unemployment data through March shows Fresno County at 10.8% unemployment, nearly double the 5.6% state rate. One of the largest employers to...

10 Takeaways From the Worst Jobs Report in US History

BALTIMORE — Brutal. Horrific. Tragic. Choose your description. The April jobs report showed, in harrowing detail, just how terribly the coronavirus outbreak has pummeled the U.S. economy. Most obviously, there’s the 14.7% unemployment rate, the highest since the Great Depression. And the shedding of more than 20 million jobs, by...

Record 22 Million Have Sought Us Jobless Aid Since Virus

WASHINGTON — The wave of layoffs that has engulfed the U.S. economy since the coronavirus struck forced 5.2 million more people to seek unemployment benefits last week, the government reported Thursday. Roughly 22 million have now sought jobless benefits in the past month — easily the worst stretch of U.S. job losses...

Opinion: Next Stimulus Should Focus on Energy, Infrastructure

As a lifelong free-market conservative, I know it pained many of my fellow Republicans to vote for the $2.3 trillion emergency relief package signed into law last month. The thought that the economy may need an additional $1 trillion or more in federal spending before the COVID-19 pandemic is over to avoid...

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