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

The announcement came as concern grew among rank-and-file lawmakers in both parties over the prospect of returning home to face voters without having enacted another recovery package.

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.

The Federal Reserve will backstop credit markets through 2020, and is expected to pledge continued economic help at its Wednesday meeting.

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.

Its decision to carry on in the face of the pandemic has yielded a surge of deaths without sparing its economy from damage — a red flag as the United States and Britain move to lift lockdowns.

Economists don’t know when the decade-long expansion, now the longest in American history, will end. But here are the indicators they will be watching to figure it out.