Two members of the New Bedford legislative delegation are hoping to extend unemployment benefits for steelworkers at the A-T-I plant in the South End.
The workers have been locked out of their jobs since August, after their contract expired...
The Massachusetts Senate has approved a bill that would make changes in unemployment insurance that supporters say will lower costs for businesses. The measure passed 33-4 Thursday. It continues a freeze on unemployment insurance rates through 2017...
Thousands of Massachusetts residents who have been out of work for more than six months are being hit by the expiration of federal unemployment benefits.
Cash payments for the long-term unemployed were being cut off Saturday after Congress failed to extend the benefits before leaving for the holidays. The...
Unemployment benefits expire for more than a million Americans on Saturday. They'll end for people who have been unemployed for more than half a year. Approximately one-point-three-million Americans will be affected immediately, and more will be affected as time goes on.
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