unemployment
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Trump Signs COVID Relief Bill, Says $2,000 Stimulus Checks Are Still Up for Congressional Vote
On Sunday night, President Donald Trump signed legislation for $900 billion in COVID relief funding along with $1.4 trillion in government spending, which averted a government shutdown that was scheduled to arrive on Tuesday. The COVID relief bill—which was approved by both the House and Senate on Dec. 21, but Trump refused to sign it…
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White People Have Recovered 60 Percent of the Jobs They Lost During This Recession. For Black Folks, That Number Is Far Lower
Earlier this year, protests to “open the economy” saw disproportionate amounts of white people flocking to the streets, many of them sans masks, to push back against measures local and state governments had taken to control the spread of the novel coronavirus. Now, as parts of the economy have opened up in recent months, data…
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Tupac Shakur Tells Kentucky Governor 'I Ain't Mad at Cha' After Being Accused of Unemployment Prank
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear held a news conference Monday night and had an ace up his sleeve: He was going to talk about people filing for unemployment benefits using fake names, and he had a name that everyone knew was faker than the Trump presidency. “We had somebody apply for unemployment for Tupac Shakur here…
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Florida Governor's Failure to Address Pre-COVID-19 Unemployment Claimant Issues Seems Shady AF
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is holding on to federal dollars tighter than a pimp from Chicago. He needs to run pre-COVID-19 unemployment claimants their money, too. The State of Florida is one of the shittiest places to be unemployed during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to WESH 2 News in Orlando, Fla. And the podunk state…
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3.3 Million Americans Filed for Unemployment Benefits. Here's What That Means for Black People
For many economic experts, it was not a matter of if a recession would hit once the coronavirus became a pandemic, but how bad it would be when it did. On Thursday morning, the numbers from the Department of Labor were even worse than what many had initially predicted: 3.3 million Americans filed for unemployment…
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Homeless Crisis in Los Angeles Highlights the Fall of the Black Middle Class
Blacks make up just 9 percent of Los Angeles County’s population overall, but comprise 40 percent of the area’s homeless, pushed to the margins by decades of redlining, layoffs, mass incarceration and gentrification. Among the homeless population, two-thirds live outside, some in whole tent communities filled with close-knit bands of men and women, according to…
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A Twitter Thread Wants to Know If You Have What It Takes to be Beyoncé’s Assistant
Some lovely Twitter user by the name of Green Chyna gave me one of my most stressful hours on Sunday when they created a quiz titled, “Being Beyoncé’s assistant for the day: DONT GET FIRED THREAD.” Never in my life have I ever cared for a job I knew I wasn’t going to get. In…
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Should We Delight in Omarosa’s Demise?
As soon as news spread that the Black Wicked Witch of the White House had been thrown out of the official presidential residence like she was Jazzy Jeff in a lost episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, the melanated part of the country burst into a giggling fit not seen since we did the…
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Omarosa Leaving the White House for Lucrative Career in Unemployment
Omarosa Manigault Newman, reality star and aunt who brings store-bought pound cake to Thanksgiving dinner, is leaving her post in the Trump administration and her position as Black Person in the Trump administration. According to CBS News, Manigault Newman resigned Tuesday to “pursue other opportunities,” effective Jan. 20, 2018. She has served as assistant to…
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Black Unemployment Hits Historic Low. Should Trump Get Credit or Are We Getting Played?
One thing that happens in a new relationship is that you start getting confused about who gets credit for what. Was I this good a salsa dancer with my ex? He (or she) totally cries during This Is Us, just like I do! Did I always like shrimp and grits, or does new bae just…