unemployment

Assistance is coming for those affected by last week’s collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.

Baltimore city has the highest youth unemployment in the nation.

Thousands of state jobs that used to require a four-year degree … no longer will. We hear about alternative ways applicants can prove they’re qualified. Plus, a labor shortage, rising prices, and a potential recession. An economist’s view of Maryland’s pandemic recovery.

The Merriweather Lakehouse Hotel received $2.5 million in federal Paycheck Protection Program loans.

We’ll go On the Record to look at Maryland’s economic recovery. Are unemployment numbers improving? Are stalled unemployment benefits making their way to those who need them? Plus: the Baltimore Job Hunters Support Group offers job seekers encouragement and strategy.

At a meeting Monday, members of the state's Joint Committee on Unemployment Insurance Oversight expressed frustration that 15 months after the pandemic forced businesses to close, residents still struggle with the state's unemployment insurance program.

Despite spending $230 million on contracts to staff the unemployment benefits call center and adjudicate claims, many calls and emails from desperate Marylanders go unanswered.

As a result of the preliminary injunction issued Tuesday, Gov. Larry Hogan's administration plans to drop its fight against the two class-action lawsuits.

Unemployed Marylanders get a legal victory. Baltimore’s Inspector General gets a performance review. And Dr. Fauci is unsure when the pandemic will completely subside.

A Baltimore City Circuit judge ruled Tuesday morning that the Hogan administration cannot prematurely cut off federal pandemic unemployment benefits.