As more Americans lose health coverage because of unemployment, the latest snapshot of the uninsured reveals a grim picture: It's not just the poor and unemployed who now go without health insurance.

A Scottsdale lawmaker plans to push for an end to the state factoring in Social Security when determining seniors’ unemployment insurance.

State lawmakers are poised to force all Arizona employers to pay more in unemployment insurance, at least temporarily.

More than 70,000 Arizonans who have lost their jobs will be getting an extra $25 a week. Gov. Jan Brewer has agreed to accept extra funds for unemployment benefits made available to the state as part of the federal stimulus package, Capitol Media Services has learned.

NEW YORK - Pessimism about a protracted economic downturn washed over the financial markets Thursday, sending stocks plunging and further tightening the credit markets. Reports on declining factory orders and a seven-year high in jobless claims stoked fears that the government's financial rescue plan won't ward off a recession, and the Dow Jones industrials skidded nearly 350 points.

About 950 unemployed Arizonans each week will exhaust their state unemployment insurance benefits after Dec. 21 and won't be eligible for extended federal benefits if Congress doesn't reauthorize an extension.

Saying it should be no different than applying for a job, state lawmakers are moving to allow the Department of Economic Security to require drug tests of those seeking unemployment insurance.

David Wells: At a recent community meeting on the state’s budget crisis with Republican and Democratic legislators, a courageous Karen Ickes shared her family crisis. Both she and her husband are unemployed, but, after losing her job, for eight weeks her family had to survive without receiving an unemployment check.

State lawmakers voted to make it easier for full-time students to qualify for unemployment insurance.

Thousands of Arizonans are on the verge of losing their jobless benefits because of a single word in state law.

Thousands of Arizonans are on the verge of losing their jobless benefits because of a single word in state law.

Thousands of Arizonans are on the verge of losing their jobless benefits because of a single word in state law.

State lawmakers refused Monday to change laws to extend jobless benefits, meaning the checks that about 15,000 Arizonans get this week are likely their last.

The state’s jobless rate may finally have stabilized, but the bill is coming due for the high unemployment of the last few years.

Hundreds of teachers at religious schools around the state could soon be at risk of being laid off with no prospect of collecting jobless benefits.

Saying it will help prevent fraud, state lawmakers voted Wednesday to impose new burdens on some people seeking unemployment insurance.

More than a third of Arizonans collecting jobless benefits could be getting their final checks this week.

Arizonans who are out of work may soon be able to get on-the-job training without losing their unemployment benefits.

PHOENIX - Parents are pulling students out of school. Construction workers are abandoning their jobs. Families are hastily moving out of apartments.

Parents are pulling students out of school. Construction workers are abandoning their jobs. Families are hastily moving out of apartments. Two months after Arizona enacted a law punishing employers that hire illegal immigrants, the law is already achieving one of its goals: Scores of immigrants are fleeing to other states or back to their Latin American homelands.

Bonnie Erbe, guest commentary

A House panel voted Wednesday to require those seeking unemployment benefits to prove that they were fired and did not just quit.

The sequester is giving job seekers the "one-two punch," first in terms of unemployment benefits and second in job training.

Sun Lakes resident Richard Beveridge received a rude awakening recently when he lost his job and applied for unemployment insurance. The state is penalizing him because he is receiving a Social Security check.