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GOP maneuvers to block Heroes Act will bring the roof down

July 27, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

Millions more face poverty, suffering, and even death if the Heroes Act already passed in the House doesn’t become law.

Some 2.3 million more seek jobless benefits; 52 million since March

July 23, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

A combined 2,345,946 people filed for state or federal jobless benefits in the week ending July 18, the Labor Department reported.

D.C. activists hoping to jump-start organizing among the unemployed

July 23, 2020 By Sean Sullivan

The Claudia Jones School for Political Education recently hosted an Unemployment and Tenant Organizing Town Hall for residents in the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia (DMV) area.

GOP says workers are lazy, don’t deserve HEROES Act unemployment help

July 22, 2020 By Tim Libretti

Are the majority of Americans lazy and averse to work? Would they prefer not to work and to enjoy a free ride from the government? Republicans say yes.

People of color face mass homelessness as eviction moratoriums end

July 22, 2020 By Center for Public Integrity

Black and brown Americans—the very people who are more likely to succumb to coronavirus or lose their jobs because of it—are disproportionately on the brink of also losing the four walls that public health officials have...