27 million workers are unemployed, according to DOL.
Author: Rebecca Rainey
How Trump’s unemployment boost is unequal across states
The money’s supposed to be a stopgap as Congress remains stalled over whether to restart payments of $600 in extra federal benefits that expired July 31.
Economy hurting after Congress fails to act on stimulus
"When you have $60 billion less going to families," former U.S. Treasury economist Ernie Tedeschi told POLITICO, "that means that there's going to be something close to that less in spending."