An Arkanas judge on Thursday ordered the state to resume paying the $300 supplemental federal pandemic jobless benefit that the state’s governor blamed for fueling a hiring crunch and decided to end early. In granting the plaintiffs a preliminary injunction that reinstates the federal jobless compensation boost, Pulaski County Circuit Judge Herbert Wright Jr. expressed “serious…

An Ohio judge on Thursday rejected a bid to reinstate the $300 supplemental federal pandemic jobless benefit that the state’s governor blamed for sidelining workers and decided to end early. Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Michael J. Holbrook on Thursday ruled against an effort by several Ohio plaintiffs to force the payout of the extra…

Florida officials on Monday announced an end to the $300 weekly federal pandemic unemployment compensation top-up, making the Sunshine State the 23rd to opt out of the jobless boost in a bid to encourage people to get back to work amid a labor shortage and booming economy. The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO), the state’s…

This week, Indiana, Oklahoma, and Texas joined 19 other Republican-led states moving to drop the $300 weekly federal jobless benefit boost in a bid to encourage the unemployed to get back to work amid sky-high levels of job openings and business hiring woes. The move by the three states to opt out of the $300…

New Hampshire’s Republican Gov. Chris Sununu said Tuesday that his state will soon be ending the $300 weekly federal jobless supplement that business groups and others have blamed for discouraging people from taking jobs and fueling a hiring crunch. Sununu said in a statement that New Hampshire would be ending the federal $300 unemployment boost,…