Today Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, Senator Michael F. Bennet, and Senator Sherrod Brown introduced a bill to make...

Yesterday, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) announced she is introducing a bill to extend pandemic UI programs through...

26 states have threatened or ended federal pandemic UI benefits early. Some states have started lawsuits to fight back against these...

First, some good news! Tax refunds are coming for those that filed their 2020 taxes before the $10,200 UI tax forgiveness was passed. A...

A roundup of recent news regarding unemployment pandemic programs: At this point TWENTY-FIVE states led by Republican governors are...

As many of you know Republican governors have declared war on UI. 16 governors so far have announced they are opting out of federal...

Due to appalling and false rhetoric circulating claiming boosted unemployment insurance is discouraging people from taking jobs, some...

A mention of permanent reform to the unemployment system made it into the White House's American Families Plan! Unlike the American...

Members of Congress are calling on President Biden to include UI system reform in the American Families Plan. This is a crucial component...

Senators Wyden and Bennet have released a proposal to permanently reform the Unemployment Insurance System. This is much needed work and...

We are VERY proud to announce MAJOR wins for workers in the NYS budget finally passed this week. We a re grateful to the NYS legislators...

A graphic series on this weekend's developments: Here's the FULL BREAKDOWN of the Senate's modifications to the House version of the...

Two amendments to the unemployment provisions are currently being discussed on the Senate floor. Senate Democrats (via Senator Carper)...

The Senate voted to start proceedings on the American Rescue Plan (the upcoming COVID relief plan moving through the reconciliation...

The House of Representatives finally passed the American Rescue Plan as part of reconciliation. The next three days are crucial in the...

The US Department of Labor has issued guidance expanding PUA eligibility! From our inbox: The new guidance expands eligibility to three...

The Ways and Means Committee approved the unemployment provisions for upcoming COVID relief including $400 weekly FPUC and extension of...

The House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee has released their proposal for relevant COVID19 relief measures to go through...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the January jobs report on Friday. It’s a bleak view of the economy, but provides important data...

Further COVID relief has two ways of being passed in the coming weeks and it looks like the second, reconciliation, is most likely. Two...

Today 10 Republicans sent a letter (full text here) to the Biden administration, proposing a much smaller COVID relief package, coming in...

On January 18th we had a huge WIN for unemployed and underemployed New Yorkers! According to Governor Cuomo, Partial UI in NYS will now...

First, we state that this is a plan NOT a bill. This proposal can be used by Congress to write legislation, there is still room for...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released the December jobs report on Friday. With only about half of the pandemic job losses...

Just after 8pm on Sunday December 27th Trump finally signed the omnibus bill that contains the relief bill passed by Congress a week ago....

Trump has threatened to veto the relief bill. He has not officially vetoed and he is "still deciding" if he will. Current state of play...

The bill text has finally been released. Full text is here. It's over 5,000 pages because it is wrapped into the omnibus bill. ADDITIONAL...

ExtendPUA.org Statement on December Relief Deal Congressional leadership has finally reached a deal on the relief bill. It is 6 months...

The bipartisan relief package text has finally been released. It has nothing new or surprising from what we have learned over the last...

First, we will briefly acknowledge movements made by the White House and McConnell so that your questions are answered. Then we encourage...

Another Jobs Report, this time broken down in graphic format. Sources for this information include the BLS November Jobs Report Economic...

Speaker Pelosi and Senator Schumer released a join statement today saying they are willing to compromise to get emergency relief out to...

A lot of proposals were released today. The most important thing to note is that legislators are feeling the pressure. These proposals...

Separate from the bipartisan proposal that just hit the press this morning and is detailed in the previous post here, 5 Senators have...

There has already been progress on the bipartisan conversations we mentioned last night. The bipartisan group of Senators we mentioned...

While we have seen little movement over the holidays from leadership besides political posturing on both sides, we are hearing growing...

So where are we now? The Senate returned to DC last week. The House returned this week. Negotiations between the White House and Pelosi...

Another jobs day, another month without relief, another day of spin from people an d politicians who aren't experiencing the real life...

The highly contentious election polarized elected officials on a relief bill. Now that campaigning has ended, it seems that everyone...

This is a discouraging update so we will first say that we have not and will not stop fighting for relief. As part of the SCOTUS debates...

Speaker Pelosi's 24 hour deadline is upon us. It seems that setting a deadline effectively put pressure on the negotiations. According to...

Speaker Pelosi and Secretary Mnuchin spoke Saturday evening at 730pm for an hour according to Drew Hammill, Pelosi's Deputy Chief of...

Many of the Senators who are standing in the way of relief are up for re-election. Senator McConnell, who has been the biggest road block...

On Friday the White House offered a 1.8 trillion dollar deal in negotiations. It includes: $1,200 direct payments to adults plus $1,000...

We're getting a little dizzy from all the head spinning caused by changing minds in the Senate and White House regarding the status of...

It is not over. As many know, Trump tweeted yesterday that he was ending negotiations, blaming Nancy Pelosi. Here is a direct quote from...

The September Jobs Report has been released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and it just further proves the need for relief. This is...

HEROES passed the House in May and was never put to a vote in the Senate by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. More information on that...

House Democrats have released a trimmed down version of The HEROES Act coming in at $2.2 Trillion instead of the $3.4 Trillion it was...

Update: In a meeting with Speaker Pelosi's office today we were told a new bill from the House will be released tonight. We had meetings...