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New unemployment claims filed last week increased to 965,000, the highest number since August, the Washington Post reports. Add in people receiving Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, the insurance for gig workers, and unemployment claims topped 1.2 million.
According to the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute, this week’s data is “messy” President Trump did not sign a bill expanding unemployment benefits until a day after benefits expired, leading to confusion and some people needing to re-apply for benefits but EPI’s read of the data is that layoffs are increasing as states roll back reopening plans.
Last week, CNN reported that, according to federal data, of the 140,000 jobs lost in December, women and primarily women of color accounted for every single job lost.
TRENTON â Mercer Countyâs controversial long-distance incarceration plan still remains a pipe dream.
The all-Democratic political machines in Mercer and Hudson counties ramrodded an inmate-transfer deal in October 2019 ordering most of Mercer Countyâs high-risk offender population to be jailed at the Hudson County Correctional Center in the North Jersey town of Kearny beginning Jan. 1, 2020, but the plan remains in limbo following a court challenge.
Morris County Assignment Judge Stuart A. Minkowitz on Dec. 24, 2019, granted a preliminary injunction blocking the shared services agreement between Mercer and Hudson counties from going into effect. The plan remains on ice pending the outcome of prolonged litigation.