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Sep. 20—WILKES-BARRE — For the 11th consecutive month, Pennsylvania's unemployment rate in August remained unchanged over the month at 3.4%. The rate remained well under the U.S. unemployment ...
Mar. 8—WILKES-BARRE — Pennsylvania's total non-farm jobs were up 14,800 over the month to a record high of 6,129,900 — the sixth consecutive record high for Pennsylvania's jobs count. Jobs ...
Aug. 16—WILKES-BARRE — Pennsylvania's unemployment rate remained unchanged over the month at 3.4% in July — the tenth consecutive month at 3.4% and it remains well under the U.S ...
The unemployment rate (U-6) is a wider measure of unemployment, which treats additional workers as unemployed (e.g., those employed part-time for economic reasons and certain "marginally attached" workers outside the labor force, who have looked for a job within the last year, but not within the last 4 weeks).
Unemployment benefits, also called unemployment insurance, unemployment payment, unemployment compensation, or simply unemployment, are payments made by governmental bodies to unemployed people. Depending on the country and the status of the person, those sums may be small, covering only basic needs, or may compensate the lost time ...
Pennsylvania CareerLink serves as a contact point for the Office of Unemployment Compensation. Unemployment representatives within Pennsylvania CareerLink offices provide a direct connection to the Office through which applications for unemployment benefits can be completed and additional information can be gathered. These representatives are ...
May 28—Pennsylvania's online compensation system is getting a long-overdue overhaul. The system used by the Department of Labor and Industry is four decades old, making it outdated, according to ...
Unemployment insurance is funded by both federal and state payroll taxes. In most states, employers pay state and federal unemployment taxes if: (1) they paid wages to employees totaling $1,500 or more in any quarter of a calendar year, or (2) they had at least one employee during any day of a week for 20 or more weeks in a calendar year, regardless of whether those weeks were consecutive.