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FILE—In this file photo from May 5, 2021, a truck passes a sign showing a need to hire laborers outside a concrete products company in Evans City, Pa. Pennsylvania will resume work search requirements in July for hundreds of thousands of people receiving unemployment compensation, a top Wolf administration official said Monday, May 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)
More jobless getting aid than in past even as cutoffs loom

By Christopher Rugaber May. 27, 2021 08:37 AM EDT

Nate Mullins, a former bartender from Oak, Harbor, Wash., who quit his job last November after clashing with managers over enforcing mask rules, poses for a photo Monday, May 17, 2021, in Mount Vernon, Wash. There's a wild card in the push to return to post-pandemic life: many workers don't want to return to the jobs they once had. Mullins' unemployment checks don't match what he was making at the bar, but they're enough to get by while he looks for jobs that would provide health care and retirement benefits. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
Changed by pandemic, many workers won't return to old jobs

By Dee-Ann Durbin, Stephen Groves, Alexandra Olson And Joseph Pisani May. 18, 2021 10:33 AM EDT

Connecticut to pay $1,000 bonus to unemployed who find jobs

By Susan Haigh May. 17, 2021 06:59 PM EDT
As other governors have announced plans to end a $300 a week supplemental unemployment benefit to encourage people to find work, Connecticut is offering a much...

Editorial Roundup: Indiana

By The Associated Press May. 11, 2021 02:00 PM EDT
KPC News. May 9, 2021. Editorial: Legislature not kind to unemployed When the Legislature was entering its final days,...

FILE - This undated file photo provided by NerdWallet shows Liz Weston, a columnist for personal finance website NerdWallet.com. (NerdWallet via AP, File)
Liz Weston: You may be entitled to free health insurance now

By Liz Weston Of Nerdwallet May. 10, 2021 06:56 AM EDT

Natalie Naranjo-Morett stands for a portrait Monday, April 19, 2021, in San Diego. "I've started to look for jobs," said Natalie Naranjo-Morett, who will graduate in June with a history degree from the University of California San Diego. "I want to go into museum work, but that's become very difficult because of the pandemic." (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Job market for new grads: Much hiring but much competition

By Travis Loller And Christopher Rugaber May. 09, 2021 10:57 AM EDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 2, 2021, file photo, a woman, wearing a protective mask due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, walks past the signs of an employment agency, in Manchester, N.H. Companies are advertising more jobs than they were before the pandemic, when the unemployment rate was a 50-year low of 3.5%. So they clearly want to add workers. Yet hiring stumbled in April because many employers couldn't find as many as they needed. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
EXPLAINER: Did US hiring slow because of a ‘labor shortage’?

By Christopher Rugaber May. 08, 2021 10:43 AM EDT

FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2020, file photo, housing activists erect a sign in front of Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker's house in Swampscott, Mass. A federal judge has ruled, Wednesday, May 5, 2021, that the Centers for Disease Control exceeded its authority when it imposed a federal eviction moratorium to provide protection for renters out of concern that having families lose their homes and move into shelters or share crowded conditions with relatives or friends during the pandemic would further spread the highly contagious virus. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
Biden administration allocates $21.6B in rental assistance

By Martin Crutsinger May. 07, 2021 01:34 PM EDT

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 8, 2021 file photo, A man walks out of a Marc's Store in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. With viral cases declining, consumers spending again and more businesses easing restrictions, America's employers likely delivered another month of robust hiring in April, reinforcing the economy's steady rebound from the pandemic recession. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)
US job growth slows sharply in sign of hiring struggles

By Christopher Rugaber May. 07, 2021 12:01 AM EDT

Yessenia Benitez, a 30-year-old licensed clinical social worker, tries to help a homeless woman sort through some documents near a homeless encampment in the Queens borough of New York, Wednesday, April 14, 2021. “Right now, they are adapting by collecting bottles but they are working folks. They want to contribute to society. And before the pandemic, they were contributing to society, some of them were paying taxes,” said Benitez. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Some immigrants, hard hit by economic fallout, lose homes

By Claudia Torrens May. 04, 2021 07:46 AM EDT

FILE - In this June 25, 2020, file photo, Sen. Nancy Skinner speaks during debate at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. The California Legislature has passed a bill Thursday, April 15, 2021, requiring some hotels and event centers to offer laid-off workers their jobs back. Democrats say the the bill protects workers. State Sen. Nancy Skinner, a Democrat from Berkeley, said women lost more jobs and left the workforce in greater numbers than men during the pandemic. "So you could also look at this bill as a very important bill to get women back in the workplace," she said. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
California Legislature OKs bill to help displaced workers

By Adam Beam Apr. 15, 2021 04:30 PM EDT

FILE - In this May 7, 2020, file photo, a person looks inside the closed doors of the Pasadena Community Job Center in Pasadena, Calif., during the coronavirus outbreak. While most Americans have weathered the pandemic financially, about 38 million say they are worse off now than before the outbreak began in the U.S. According to a new poll from Impact Genome and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research 55% of Americans say their financial circumstances are about the same now as a year ago, and 30% say their finances have improved. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
With layoffs down and spending up, US rebound gains momentum

By Christopher Rugaber And Joseph Pisani Apr. 15, 2021 08:41 AM EDT

A hiring information sign is displayed at a fast food restaurant in Des Plaines, Ill., Friday, April 2, 2021. America's employers unleashed a burst of hiring in March, adding 916,000 jobs in a sign that a sustained recovery from the pandemic recession is taking hold as vaccinations accelerate, stimulus checks flow through the economy and businesses increasingly reopen. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
From child care to COVID, rising job market faces obstacles

By Christopher Rugaber Apr. 03, 2021 10:31 AM EDT

President Joe Biden speaks about the March jobs report in the State Dining Room of the White House, Friday, April 2, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
March hiring accelerated to 916K, yet many jobs remain lost

By Christopher Rugaber Apr. 01, 2021 12:13 PM EDT

Actress Kelly Regina da Silva lies on a cushion watching TV in the building where she lives in one of the city center’s squats, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, March 16, 2021. The Brazilian government’s emergency pandemic aid program provided a lifeline to nearly 70 million poor and unemployed Brazilians which ended in December for da Silva. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
In Brazil, moms are bearing the brunt of pandemic's blow

By Diane Jeantet Mar. 28, 2021 11:10 AM EDT

FILE - In this March 4, 2021, file photo, a sign reading "Welcome Back Now Open" is posted on the window of a Morton's Steakhouse restaurant as a man works inside during the coronavirus pandemic in San Francisco. California added 141,000 jobs in February as more than a quarter of a million people returned to the workforce. The California Employment Development Department said Friday, March 26, that the state's unemployment rate in February was 8.5%, down from 9% in January. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
Hopeful signs as California adds 141,000 jobs in February

By Adam Beam Mar. 26, 2021 01:56 PM EDT

Pandemic cited as cause of homelessness for some in Houston

By Juan A. Lozano Mar. 24, 2021 06:07 PM EDT
HOUSTON (AP) — An annual count of the Houston area’s homeless population found that about 15% of people surveyed said they were without a fixed address because...

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2020 file photo, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell appears before the Senate Banking Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Powell and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen say more needs to be done to limit the damage from the coronavirus pandemic and promote a full economic recovery. The two officials struck upbeat notes on the future of the economy in their prepared testimony Tuesday, March 23, 2021 before the House Financial Services Committee while cautioning that the economy still needs help. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)
Yellen, Powell say more needed to limit US economic damage

By Martin Crutsinger Mar. 23, 2021 12:33 PM EDT

Mikel Haye poses for a portrait on his stoop, Friday, March 12, 2021, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Haye, who was forced into performing a financial triage after he lost all three of his part-time jobs shortly after the pandemic struck. He was scrambling to pay the bills on a Brooklyn apartment he shares with his unemployed mother and two brothers while deciding how to spend whatever money was left: On food? The car insurance? His phone bill? (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Damage from virus: Utility bills overwhelm some households

By Michael Liedtke And Cathy Bussewitz Mar. 23, 2021 11:31 AM EDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 7, 2018 file photo, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of U.N. Women, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, in New York. The U.N. health agency and its partners have found in a new study released Tuesday, March 9, 2021 that nearly one in three women worldwide have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetimes, calling the results a “horrifying picture” that requires action by government and communities alike. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, executive director of UN Women, called violence against women "the most widespread and persistent human rights violation that is not prosecuted.” (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, file)
UN Women urges world to press gender equality post-pandemic

By Edith M. Lederer Mar. 23, 2021 01:00 AM EDT