unemployment

With the entertainment industry in Las Vegas taking a nose dive amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many workers have had to find alternative ways to make ends meet. Bev Llorente speaks with now unemployed Filipino entertainers to...

The COVID-19 pandemic shattered the world economy, sparing no one, not even America. Government officials from both sides of the political fence also struggled for months trying to break the stalemate over a stimulus package. The...

Employees of California State University are protesting the institution’s decision to lay them off in the middle of a pandemic. They say they’re not buying the budget crisis as a reason for their retrenchment, arguing there’s...

Filipinos in Canada relying on financial assistance from the government are on edge as some forms of the benefit end this week. Rowena Papasin with the full story....Read More

The economic impacts of the pandemic have triggered long lines at food banks. As Lenn Almadin Thornhill tells us, young Filipino Americans are lending a helping hand to keep their neighbors from going hungry....Read More

Political analyst Jay Gonzalez of Golden Gate University explains which issues Republican voters from our community care most about in the 2020 presidential race....Read More

Before the pandemic, the calls that labor attorney Felwina Opiso-Mondina received were from workers who complained they were not getting paid overtime, not getting breaks, or were fired when they spoke up about poor working conditions....

Eleven days have passed since federal aid for millions of unemployed Americans ended and lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, along with White House negotiators, have yet to reach a deal when it comes to...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said that Democratic leaders will return to the negotiating table when it comes to the next stimulus package, for as long as the federal government puts $1 trillion in. On Monday,...

President Donald Trump’s team is exploring an executive order to suspend evictions for renters who can’t make rent payments, suspend the payroll tax, as well as reinstate expanded federal unemployment benefits. But some critics are already...