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On Friday the Labor Department reported a 4% unemployment rate last month and the addition of 143,000 jobs, a picture "consistent with a healthy labor market that is neither weakening nor showing ...
With 1.5 million new unemployment claims filed last week, Congress appeared no closer Thursday to bridging the partisan divide on how to help those people and millions more when expanded ...
The unemployment rate fell from 4.2% to 4.1%, the Labor Department said Friday. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg had estimated that about 165,000 jobs were added last month, based on their median ...
The bill would also amend the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008 to exempt weeks of unemployment between enactment of this Act and September 30, 2014, from the prohibition in the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 (FSEUCA of 1970) against federal matching payments to a state for the first week in an ...
Unemployment levels remained fairly steady after the passing of the act. After 1970, however, the economy began to fluctuate and unemployment rates rose again. The same fears that motivated the creation of the act in 1946 precipitated an amendment in 1978, entitled the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act. This act was identical in spirit to ...
The Act set specific numerical goals for the President to attain. By 1983, unemployment rates should be not more than 3% for persons aged 20 or over and not more than 4% for persons aged 16 or over, and inflation rates should not be over 4%. By 1988, inflation rates should be 0%. The Act allows Congress to revise these goals over time.
State unemployment programs have long been a target of criminals, identity thieves and organized crime, due to antiquated systems, poor monitoring and, in many states, a lack of the most basic ...
The United States Department of Labor (DOL) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government.It is responsible for the administration of federal laws governing occupational safety and health, wage and hour standards, unemployment benefits, reemployment services, and occasionally, economic statistics.