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Expanded federal unemployment benefits, put in place as an emergency measure during the COVID-19 pandemic, are on course to become another long-term “welfare trap,” a government fiscal watchdog group warns in a new report.

Jobs will be in focus this upcoming week as investors will take in data including ADP employment and nonfarm payrolls for the month of July.

"Bar Rescue" host Jon Taffer on why he believes robots can help the restaurant worker shortage.

Getting Americans off the unemployment rolls and back into the labor force is the key to America’s economic recovery, Ohio’s Lt. Gov. Jon Husted told FOX Business on Friday.

The IRS is delivering another batch of federal refunds to Americans who collected unemployment benefits last year and paid taxes on that money

A judge on Thursday ruled in favor of the Ohio state government after residents filed a lawsuit over a decision to end participation in a pandemic-related federal unemployment assistance program.

In July 2021, a federal court ruled that private student loans can be discharged in bankruptcy. But student loan refinancing may offer a better way to manage your college debt without significantly damaging your credit score.

The United Mine Workers of America claim Warrior Met Coal's workers made numerous concessions totaling over $1.1B to help the company stay afloat and emerge from bankruptcy in 2016

Despite growing concerns about the delta variant of the coronavirus, 96% of employees are making plans to return to the office in some capacity, according to a new report by Glassdoor.

"This deal makes key investments to put people to work all across the country—in cities, small towns, rural communities, and across our coastlines and plains," President Biden said in a statement. "The Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal is a blue-collar blueprint to rebuild America that will help make our historic economic recovery a historic long-term boom."

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell gave his latest views on inflation, tapering and the health of the U.S. economy amid rising COVID-19 cases and a return to mask mandates.

McDonald’s Corp. says the labor shortage that has plagued its restaurants this year is showing signs of abating, especially in states that have already ended extended unemployment benefits.

According to LinkedIn data, 10 U.S. cities are seeing a growing workforce because they are "heeding the call to put workers first" — Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Minneapolis and Seattle are "attracting a growing number of job seekers," the company said.

After President Biden’s comments to restaurant owner John Lanni that he will "be in a bind for a little while," unless restaurateurs improve wages, some in the industry are speaking out.