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It wasn’t just the Fed or the stimulus. The rise in savings among white-collar workers created a tide lifting nearly all financial assets.

Emergency federal programs to assist the unemployed in the pandemic will expire at year’s end if there is no congressional action.

Thirty-two states have so far signed on to President Trump’s stopgap program to get more money to the jobless. Here’s how it works.

President Trump’s stopgap program to get more money to the jobless is off to a slow start. Here’s how it works.

Supplemental checks for laid-off workers are set to expire at month’s end. Republicans and Democrats disagree on what to do next.

For millions of people, making a living is a cobbled-together proposition. That leaves a hole in the safety net when things turn bad.

The United States just lost 20 million jobs. The wrong federal response could make those layoffs a permanent fixture of the U.S. economy and sentence thousands of companies to bankruptcy.