Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Not every federal employee who is going without pay because of the government shutdown can draw on state unemployment insurance benefits to cover the gap.

The Trump administration has overseen a big drop in the federal workforce. That's great. Unfortunately, the private sector is ...

Right after setting her out-of-office email on October 1, one furloughed US Department of Agriculture worker filed for unemployment benefits to help her pay for food, rent and other necessities during ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Are furloughed federal employees unable access unemployment benefits? Here is the response KOB 4 received from the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions when we asked that ...

Ginette Young lined up with hundreds of furloughed federal workers ahead of a special food bank distribution on Tuesday in a suburb just outside the District of Columbia. “I’m here because I’ve had no ...

For more than two weeks now during the government shutdown, Imelda Avila-Thomas has been trying in vain to get approved for unemployment compensation to help cover essentials such as food and mortgage ...

According to Office of Personnel Management data, as of September 2024, around 5% -- or roughly 100,000 -- of the federal workforce was older than 65. Considering the large number of employees taking ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Democratic governors and attorneys general from 25 states sued to stop the White House from ending Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits on Nov. 1 as the government shutdown ...

The federal government shutdown canceled a second straight jobs report, but private data sources suggest the labor market has weakened modestly since summer. By Ben Casselman Job growth has remained ...