Nearly 2M more Americans file for unemployment

June 4, 2020

About 1.9 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, bringing the total number of those seeking government assistance to more than 41 million over the past 11 weeks. Economists are looking for signs of hope in jobs reports as states across the nation begin to allow more businesses to reopen to the public.

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Waffle House Workers Strike for Fair Pay and Better Working Conditions

Waffle House workers in Conyers, Georgia, are now on their third day of striking over what they call the company’s unfair policies. Led by the Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW), Waffle House employees are demanding an end to the mandatory “meal credit” deductions from their paychecks, along with better wages and improved working conditions.