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TWC's online job-matching system, workintexas.com, features thousands of opportunities for Texas jobseekers and qualified applicants for Texas employers. One large program, the Skills Development Fund, is Texas' premier job–training program providing training dollars for Texas businesses to help workers learn new skills and upgrade existing ...
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.
However, state economic experts say the unemployment rate is an indicator of Texas’s rapidly growing population and labor force. ... with private employers adding 177,000 jobs in August, ...
Jun. 23—In May, the seasonally adjusted Texas unemployment rate was 6.5%, down 0.2 percentage points from April 2021. Texas added 34,400 total nonagricultural jobs over the month, making gains ...
Unemployment rates historically are lower for those groups with higher levels of education. For example, in May 2016 the unemployment rate for workers over 25 years of age was 2.5% for college graduates, 5.1% for those with a high school diploma, and 7.1% for those without a high school diploma.
U.S. states by net employment rate (% of population 16 and over) 2022 [1] National rank State Employment rate in % (total population) Annual change (%) (=rise in employment) 1 Nebraska: 68.1 0.5 2 North Dakota: 67.8 1.3 — District of Columbia: 67.4 3.0 3 Utah: 67.1 1.1 4 South Dakota: 66.8 0.0 5 Colorado: 66.3 1.9 Iowa: 66.3 1.5 Minnesota: 66 ...
The state has yet to return to its pre-pandemic unemployment rate of about 3.5%, even as it leads the country in new jobs created. However, state economic experts say the unemployment rate is an ...