Tax filing season officially kicked off in the United States on Jan. 24, 2022. That’s when the Internal Revenue Service says it began accepting and processing 2021 tax year returns. Amid the first ...

When the COVID-19 outbreak first erupted in early 2020, many people lost their jobs as non-essential businesses were forced to shutter. And many people spent much of 2021 out of work as well. In March ...

Although the joblessness situation wasn't nearly as dire in 2021 as it was in 2020, many people still wound up collecting unemployment benefits last year -- especially earlier on, before the economy ...

A. We’re sorry to hear you were out of work. We’re also sorry to say we don’t have good news for you. In 2020, Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act ...

Nebraska State Capitol landscape at sunrise. Nebraska is the state with the lowest unemployment rate, with an unemployment rate of 1.7% in December 2021, and an annual average of 2.4% in 2021. The ...

Millions of Americans lost their jobs during the pandemic, and the damage was especially devastating in the spring of 2020, when weekly jobless claims were filed in the millions. Recognizing that the ...