Monday, 10 August 2020_The memo Trump signed Saturday extends the enhanced unemployment benefits that expired about two weeks ago. The benefits will be lowered from $600 to $400 per week, with states required to cover 25 percent of the cost.
Tehran, 05 June_The US unemployment rate likely shot up to almost 20% in May, a new post World War Two record, with millions more losing their jobs, exposing the horrific human toll from the COVID-19 crisis.
Tehran, 07 May_Millions more Americans sought unemployment benefits last week, suggesting layoffs broadened from consumer-facing industries to other segments of the economy and could remain elevated even as many parts of the country start to reopen.
TEHRAN, Nov 23_India’s urban unemployment rate between January and March this year was 9.3%, the lowest in at least four quarters, according to an unpublished government report reviewed by Reuters.
TEHRAN, May 25 - Nearly 40 percent of Americans would struggle to cover an unexpected $400 expense, despite the country’s 10-year economic growth, according to a new report by the US Federal Reserve.
TEHRAN, August 2 - Official statistics show that new summer contracts have brought the number of unemployed in Spain to 3.13 million, the lowest level in nearly a decade and 2 million below peak levels during the financial crisis.
TEHRAN, November 3 - Registered unemployment rose sharply in Catalonia in October, data showed on Friday, with more people signing on as jobless in the region than anywhere else in Spain as companies fled in the midst of the country’s worst political crisis in decades.
TEHRAN, August 26, YJC - Ayatollah Kazem Seddighi led this week's Friday Prayers of Tehran and advised officials of new administration to care about people’s problems, during his second sermon of prayers.
TEHRAN, August 25 - In France, the government of President Emmanuel Macron has been grappling with the issue of unemployment since he took power in May.
TEHRAN, August 3, YJC - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani vowed to take fundamental steps to battle challenges including unemployment and strengthen the country’s economy under policies of the Resistance Economy in his second term in office.
TEHRAN, May 1, YJC - Italian labor unions marked Labor Day by holding demonstrations and demanding the government to do more in tackling the country's staggering unemployment, a Sputnik correspondent reported on Monday.
CHICAGO, November 5 (RIA Novosti), Ella Wojt - High unemployment rates in Illinois are "ridiculous" and caused by political corruption, Chicago residents voting in the mid-election on Tuesday told RIA Novosti.
The European Union on Tuesday raised its unemployment forecast for the 17-nation eurozone economy next year to 12.2 percent from the previous 12.1 percent.
TEHRAN, YJC. -- Thousands of people have taken to the streets in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, to protest against the country’s high unemployment rate and cost of living.