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The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) on Friday released its preliminary employment situation report for August 2024. The Commonwealth's unemployment rate was one-tenth of a ...
The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) on Friday released its preliminary employment situation report for July 2024. The Commonwealth's unemployment rate was two-tenths of a ...
The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) on Friday released its preliminary employment situation report for May 2024. The Commonwealth's unemployment rate was one-tenth of a ...
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.
In the United States, there is a standard of 26 weeks of unemployment compensation, known as "regular unemployment insurance (UI) benefits".As of December 2020, the U.S. has three programs for extending unemployment benefits: [1] Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC), Extended Benefits (EB), and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC).
The Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2009 is a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives of the 111th United States Congress by Congressman Jim McDermott that would give an extra 13 weeks of unemployment benefits to jobless workers in states with unemployment rates of 8.5 percent or more.
Oct. 18—WILKES-BARRE — Pennsylvania's unemployment rate was unchanged over the month at 3.4% in September — the 12th consecutive month with an identical rate and the longest streak on record ...
U.S. unemployment claims rose to 231,000 last week, up 13,000 claims from 218,000 the week prior on a seasonally adjusted basis. Massachusetts saw the largest percentage increase in weekly claims ...