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  • No Hiring Boom in States That Cut Unemployment Benefits Early: Analysis
    Business
    The Fiscal Times

    No Hiring Boom in States That Cut Unemployment Benefits Early: Analysis

    In an effort to speed jobless workers’ return to employment, 20 Republican-led states reduced unemployment benefits in mid-June. But according to a new analysis, those states did not see a boom in hiring, though they did see a change in the mix of workers getting new jobs. The analysis, performed by the payroll processing firm Gusto for The Washington Post, found that employment growth has been roughly equal in states that ended the $300 per week supplemental federal unemployment payments in Jun

  • Student loan repayment cliff: '30 million will have a bill coming due,' Sen. Warren warns
    Politics
    Yahoo Finance

    Student loan repayment cliff: '30 million will have a bill coming due,' Sen. Warren warns

    Democratic lawmakers continue to pressure President Biden to extend the student loan pandemic payment pause and enact student loan forgiveness.

  • NBC News adds 200 jobs in streaming, digital push
    Business
    Reuters

    NBC News adds 200 jobs in streaming, digital push

    Comcast -owned NBC will begin distributing NBC News Now internationally later this year, the company said. Last year Comcast scrapped plans to launch an international TV news channel with its British pay-TV broadcaster Sky, which had been named NBC Sky World News and which it expected to take on CNN.