Labor department pays out $9.2B to 2 million unemployed New Yorkers

The embattled state Department of Labor has now paid out a whopping $9.2 billion in unemployment insurance benefits to two million New Yorkers who have filed jobless claims since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, state officials confirmed Monday. “That doesn’t mean every single person has been cleared from the backlog. It’s the majority of...

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