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Several states have begun requiring those receiving unemployment benefits to show they are actively searching for work, and a few will stop providing the additional federal supplement.
States push jobless to return to work; NC reinstates job-search requirement WILSON RING, Associated Press STOWE, Vt. (AP) — Eduardo Rovetto is hoping the state of Vermont's reinstated requirement that people who are collecting unemployment benefits must seek work to qualify will help him hire enough staff for his restaurant in the resort town of Stowe. After more than a year of coronavirus restrictions on his business, Piecasso Pizzeria & Lounge, he's expecting a breakout summer tourism season, but like employers across the country he's worried he won't have enough workers. "We've been gett...
States push jobless from virus recession to return to work WILSON RING, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 6 1of6Job seekers line up outside the New Hampshire Works employment security job center, Monday, May 10, 2021, in Manchester, N.H. States are pushing the unemployed to get back to work to help businesses large and small find the workers they need to emerge from the COVID-19 recession. Now some states are reinstating a requirement that anyone who collects unemployment must look for work.Mary Schwalm/APShow MoreShow Less 2of6Eduardo Rovetto poses outside his restaurant Pie...
Wilson Ring Crystal Dvorak shops at WinCo Foods, Saturday, May, 7, 2021, in Billings, Mont. Dvorak recently lost her job as an audiologist. The day Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte announced the $300 benefit would end June 27 was Dvorakâs second day of unemployment. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) May 11, 2021 - 9:48 AM STOWE, Vt. (AP) â Eduardo Rovetto is hoping the state of Vermont's reinstated requirement that people who are collecting unemployment benefits must seek work to qualify will help him hire enough staff for his restaurant in the resort town of Stowe. Af...
US tribe shares vaccine with relatives, neighbours in Canada May 5, 2021 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BABB, Mont.- On a cloudy spring day, hundreds lined up in their cars on the Canadian side of the border crossing that separates Alberta and Montana. They had driven for hours and camped out in their vehicles in hopes of receiving the season’s hottest commodity, a COVID-19 vaccine, from a Native American tribe that was giving out its excess doses. The Blackfeet tribe in northern Montana provided about 1,000 surplus vaccines last month to its First Nations relatives and others from across the bor...