U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell last week, remaining in the same range of recent years despite a broadly tepid labor market.

Advocates say Georgia's experience with a work requirement for Medicaid should serve as a warning to Republicans in Congress pushing a similar mandate.

A federal judge has ruled that the Biden administration complied with the law when it declined to grant an extension to Georgia’s year-old Medicaid plan, which is the only one in the country that has a work requirement for recipients of the publicly funded health coverage for low-income people.