The Congressional Budget Office adjusted its economic growth outlook for 2023 on account of inflation, higher interest rates and an uptick in unemployment that occurred in the second half of 2022. In
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Maximus has announced it is a Business Partner of the Virginia Ready Initiative, a new initiative to help unemployed Virginians across the Commonwealth return to work. Maximus will work to combat the
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The Department of Labor (DoL) will begin to search for partnerships within industry to address challenges in processing unemployment benefits amid the current health crisis, the department reported Thursday.
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Any deal in Congress to avert the fiscal cliff of tax increases and spending cuts must have policies that members of both parties do not like, the head of a business-backed campaign
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One million U.S. jobs could be lost if the congressional supercommittee fails to agree on a deficit reduction proposal and automatic defense budget cuts are imposed, according to the Aerospace Industries Association,
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More workers were hired in September and job gains from previous months were revised higher, but the Labor Department’s latest jobs report says it did not make a dent in the nation’s
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At a forum in Cleveland Thursday, Federal Reserve System Chairman Ben Bernanke called the U.S.’ unemployment a “national crisis” and indicated the Fed could continue implementing unconventional policies if economic growth remains stagnant.
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President Barack Obama will send his recently-announced American Jobs Act to Congress on Monday evening, according to a White House official. Obama “will call on Congress to pass the bill, which contains
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Congress returns to Washington this week after a month-long recess, with a full slate of issues on its agenda. C-SPAN reports lawmakers will focus on three issues that dominated their schedules before
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New job numbers released Friday by the Labor Department show job growth remained unchanged in August, with the unemployment rate holding at 9.1 percent. The new report says the number of those
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