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FEMA said it was inundated with over 1 million calls from people requesting assistance with COVID-19-related funeral expenses on its first day of application processing.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell sharply last week to 576,000, a hopeful sign that layoffs are easing as the economy recovers from the pandemic recession.

Shares of the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange, which trade under the ticker COIN, opened for trading at $381 apiece, giving the company a valuation of about $99.5 billion. 

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LinkedIn is rolling out a variety of updates, which includes adding “stay-at-home mom/dad/parent” as official job titles to better explain career gaps.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose last week to 744,000, signaling that many employers are still cutting jobs.

The Treasury Department says it has issued more than 156 million payments as part of President Joe Biden’s coronavirus relief plan.

The IRS is holding onto more than $1.3 billion in unclaimed tax refunds for individuals who did not file a return in 2017 — money that will expire if those people don't collect it soon.

Taco Bell is converting thousands of its parking lots into job fairs on April 21 for a nationwide hiring event.

The IRS says these "plus-up" payments will continue on a weekly basis going forward, and go to those who recently filed a 2020 tax return and qualify for more stimulus money.

America’s employers unleashed a burst of hiring in March, adding 916,000 jobs in a sign that a sustained recovery from the pandemic recession is taking hold.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose by 61,000 last week to 719,000, signaling that many employers are still cutting jobs even as more businesses reopen, vaccines are increasingly administered and federal aid spreads through the economy.

PayPal announced on Tuesday that it will be launching “Checkout with Crypto,” which allows users to pay with cryptocurrency when making purchases online.

The IRS issued a warning this week about an ongoing tax refund phishing scam targeting students and staff at colleges and universities who have a “.edu” email address.

The federal government has extended a pause on student loan payments to more than 1 million people who have defaulted on loans held by private lenders, aiding thousands who were at risk of having tax returns seized to pay the debts.

A group of Democratic senators is urging President Joe Biden to extend rescue measures for Americans — including recurring direct payments and extended jobless benefits — in his “Build Back Better” legislation.

The U.S. Education Department is temporarily relaxing the rules of a student loan forgiveness program that's meant to help people with disabilities but that critics say carries overly burdensome rules.

Biden is expected to detail an infrastructure package on Wednesday.

In its first price hike since its debut, Disney Plus is upping the cost of its monthly subscription service, which surpassed 100 million subscribers this month.