The numbers: New applications for U.S. unemployment benefits rose in mid-February to a four-week high of 861,000, showing lots of Americans are still losing their jobs nearly a year after the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Initial jobless claims filed traditionally through the states rose by 13,000 to 861,000 in …
Read More »Medill News Service: Treasury says it will act with ‘urgency’ on humanitarian requests involving sanctioned countries during coronavirus pandemic
The head of the Office of Foreign Assets Control said Friday she wants to ensure that economic sanctions against foreign countries do not impede U.S. humanitarian relief for the COVID-19 pandemic, but the former director of the agency said the business community wants it to go further. The Treasury Department …
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