Economics
Jobless Americans Are Stuck in Backlog Nightmare as Pandemic Benefits Expire
People who are owed thousands of dollars in unemployment insurance are fighting bureaucratic delays
Sharon Black, one of the organizers of the Unemployed Workers Union, in Baltimore, on Sept. 1.
Photographer: Pete Kiehart/Bloomberg
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For millions of Americans, the Labor Day weekend will bring the end of federally funded emergency unemployment benefits and a lurch into the uncertain economic recovery.