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Unemployment in the US by State (June 2023) The list of U.S. states and territories by unemployment rate compares the seasonally adjusted unemployment rates by state and territory, sortable by name, rate, and change. Data are provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment publication.
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.
The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW, aka ES-202) is a program of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the US Department of Labor that produces a comprehensive tabulation of employment and wage information for workers covered by state unemployment insurance (UI) laws, as reported to state workforce agencies (SWAs [1]) and the Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees (UCFE ...
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose 14,000 to a seasonally adjusted 217,000 for the week ended Jan. 11, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Economists polled by Reuters had ...
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose 9,000 to a seasonally adjusted 224,000 for the week ended Nov. 30, the Labor Department said on Thursday. ... The unemployment rate is forecast ...
The state’s November unemployment rate was unchanged from October at 4.3%, but the labor force participation rate rose from 62.5% to 62.6%, leading economists to believe job openings and ...
For the year 2008, ODJFS sought federal help concerning Ohio's unemployment insurance trust fund. State officials had stated that the fund was in danger of running out before the end of the year. [9] On December 5, 2008, ODJFS announced that extended unemployment benefit payments will start the week of December 22, 2008. [10]
The rise in the unemployment rate from 3.4% in April 2023 to 4.3% in July this year was the trigger for the U.S. central bank's unusually large 50-basis-point rate cut last month.