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Mary Taboniar, a housekeeper at the Hilton Hawaiian Village resort in Honolulu, looks over bills at her home in Waipahu, Hawaii, on Sept. 4, 2021. Taboniar went 15 months without a paycheck, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. The single mother of two saw her income completely vanish as the virus devastated the hospitality industry. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)
Sep 8, 2021

‘A double whammy of hardship’: Two anchors of COVID safety net end, putting millions at risk

With the end of two anchors of the government’s COVID-19 protection package expired, untold millions faced Labor Day with a suddenly shrunken social safety net.

Unemployment Compensation Pennsylvania
May 27, 2021

More jobless getting aid than in past even as cutoffs loom

Far more Americans are receiving unemployment benefits than the last time the jobless rate was at the current 6.1%, thanks to a major expansion of the federal safety net that has provided aid to millions of people out of work.