The White House is reportedly considering issuing a new round of executive actions amid dwindling hopes for a bipartisan coronavirus relief deal. Trump administration officials have discussed efforts to unilaterally provide support for the …
Read moreThe Trump administration could address airline layoffs, extend federal unemployment aid
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin have agreed to work to avoid a government shutdown right before the election, and not let the stalemate over virus-relief legislation …
Read moreNancy Pelosi: Is the Cause of Unemployment Pains and Stimulus Delays
For three decades, Kelly Flint flourished as a corporate travel agent, sending everyone from business titans to oil riggers around the planet. Then came the worst pandemic in a century, …
Read moreFor pandemic jobless, the only real certainty is uncertainty
President Donald Trump signed executive orders on Saturday partly restoring enhanced unemployment payments to the tens of millions of Americans who lost jobs in the coronavirus pandemic, as the United …
Read moreTrump signs coronavirus relief orders after talks with Congress break down
U.S. hiring slowed in July as the coronavirus outbreak worsened, and the government’s jobs report offered signs Friday that the economic damage from the pandemic could last far longer than …
Read moreUS hiring slows amid signs of longer-lasting economic damage
U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to unilaterally suspend payroll taxes and extend expired coronavirus unemployment benefits after negotiations with congressional Democrats on a broad pandemic aid package collapsed on Friday. …
Stephen Moore, Back in 2009, Nancy Pelosi infamously declared the best way to revive the economy was to dole out ever-more-generous food stamps and unemployment benefits. The more people collecting welfare, …
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Cal Thomas, I am not in the habit of quoting leftist Noam Chomsky, but this line seems relevant when one considers our growing national debt: “When you trap people in …