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State, Federal Unemployment Check-In: Who’s Getting Paid, Who’s Not And Whether More Benefit Money Is On The Way

By AirTalk Staff
Published Sep 2, 2020
CALEXICO, CALIFORNIA - JULY 24: People stand in a bookkeeping shop with sheets of plastic protecting workers near the U.S.-Mexico border in Imperial County, which has been hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, on July 24, 2020 in Calexico, California. Unemployment claims in California have reached their highest levels in almost three months with surging coronavirus cases upending plans to reopen the economy. Imperial County currently suffers from the highest death rate and near-highest infection rate from COVID-19 in California. The rural county, which is 85 percent Latino, borders Mexico and Arizona and endures high poverty rates and air pollution while also being medically underserved. In California, Latinos make up about 39 percent of the population but account for 55 percent of confirmed coronavirus cases. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
People stand in a bookkeeping shop with sheets of plastic protecting workers near the U.S.-Mexico border in Imperial County, which has been hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, on July 24, 2020 in Calexico, California.
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State, Federal Unemployment Check-In: Who’s Getting Paid, Who’s Not And Whether More Benefit Money Is On The Way

Next week, eligible Californians should start receiving supplemental unemployment benefits of $300 each week, thanks to federal funding approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help those whose jobs have been impacted by the coronavirus. 

Today on AirTalk, we’ll check in on the latest with unemployment benefits at the state and national level, look at who is getting paid and who is not, and find out whether more economic relief for Americans whose jobs have been furloughed or lost during the pandemic.

For more information on applying for unemployment insurance in California, click here.

Guests:

Lauren Hepler, economy reporter for CalMatters; she tweets

Scott Horsley, economics reporter for NPR; he tweets