Under the last coronavirus stimulus package signed into law late last year, each state was responsible for implementing federal unemployment extensions for people who lost their jobs in the pandemic.

The programming language known as COBOL, which stands for Common Business Oriented Language, turns 65 this year. We couldn’t help noticing that’s right around retirement age, but COBOL is nowhere near ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — The phrase “the future of Cobol” might seem an oxymoron, but in a talk so titled at the Club de Investigacion Tecnologica SA’s software transformation seminar here Friday, ...

State officials say aging computers systems that rely on a pre-Internet programming language may be causing delays in processing jobless benefits.... 'COBOL Cowboys' Aim To Rescue Sluggish State ...

Cobol still forms the backbone of many crucial financial and administrative systems, with high usage in The Netherlands due to its early and adept automation of the economy. Cobol was, and remains, ...

Bill Hinshaw's phone has been ringing off the hook lately. From his home in Gainesville, Texas, which Hinshaw describes as "horse country," he runs a group called the COBOL Cowboys. It's an ...