Ms. Rinehart is one of nearly half a million Pennsylvanians who will lose their benefits this weekend, according to estimates from the Century Foundation, a progressive research institute. The state has an unemployment rate of 6.6 percent, well above the national rate of 5.4 percent. Overall, Pennsylvania has regained about two-thirds of the jobs lost in the pandemic, compared with about three-quarters nationally. But his calendar remains sparse this fall, and without unemployment benefits to fall back on, he isn’t sure how he will get by. “But if things don’t start to improve, I may have to do something different.”

Source: International New York Times September 02, 2021 09:00 UTC