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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.

After calling the measure a “disgrace,” President Trump unexpectedly signed the bill, extending expanded unemployment benefits and an eviction moratorium, and keeping the government open.

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

Lawmakers approved the measure along party lines, even as Speaker Nancy Pelosi said a late-stage agreement with the administration was still possible.

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.

Democrats said the talks had been “disappointing,” and President Trump promised to use executive orders to provide relief if no agreement could be reached.

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.

Republican senators threatened to block trillions of dollars in aid amid the coronavirus pandemic to deprive low-wage workers of needed help.

The largest economic stimulus measure in modern history would authorize direct payments to taxpayers and loans to small businesses, and create a $500 billion corporate bailout fund.